That’s a bs reason, email paywall bypassing is so easy that it could just as well not exist.
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shakcked@lemm.ee 2 weeks agoI 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.
red@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Pechente@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
How long until somebody automates the scraping with throw-away email addresses?
DdCno1@beehaw.org 2 weeks ago
Wrong question. How long ago, you mean.