Comment on Pornhub Is Now Blocked In Almost All of the U.S. South

ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• millie@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  404 Media: we’re not like the rest. Except when we are.

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  • shakcked@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I wouldn’t quite call it a paywall. This article is free with an email sign up. They discussed this before and not sure I believe it but their reason/excuse for free email sign up was to combat AI scrapers. They noticed their articles were getting scraped by a few well known AI scrape and repost “news” sites.

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    • Pechente@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      How long until somebody automates the scraping with throw-away email addresses?

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      • DdCno1@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Wrong question. How long ago, you mean.

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    • red@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s a bs reason, email paywall bypassing is so easy that it could just as well not exist.

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