Comment on The Guardian have quietly added a paywall
echodot@feddit.uk 10 months ago
Quietly?
I’m not sure how quiet it is if it’s a image that covers the screen.
Perhaps a better title would have been “The Guardian have website has a paywall.”
Comment on The Guardian have quietly added a paywall
echodot@feddit.uk 10 months ago
Quietly?
I’m not sure how quiet it is if it’s a image that covers the screen.
Perhaps a better title would have been “The Guardian have website has a paywall.”
butterflyattack@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yeah, I read it in a browser. It started restricting my access to compete articles so I had a think and decided I’d pay for it. I don’t read it loads and I’m not rich so I pay IIRC £2 a month. Problem solved. Real journalism seems to be having a hard time these days, and I can see why - back in the days before everything was online I would buy a physical newspaper every day. So news media have lost the income from all those people like me who stopped buying newspapers, they’ve got to make it up through advertising or through a pay-for-content model.
I don’t like paywalls because I don’t like the idea that information should be restricted to those who can afford to buy it. But TBF that was the way it was back when you had to physically purchase a newspaper. The alternative is a load of intrusive advertising. Or articles written cheaply by chatGPT or whatever. Money to pay the wages for journalists to research and write articles has to come from somewhere.