I want to be clear that this is not a reaction to any specific post, just something that I’m thinking about as I’m browsing around.
What do people think about linking to paywalled content? I find it frustrating, personally–but only if I’m not currently paying for the material, because if I am then I’m logged in and likely won’t notice.
Maybe it would be nice to have a guideline, a suggestion, for people posting links to such content as top-level posts to provide a summary (like on this post) for those who don’t have access?
Also, I apologize if this is something that’s been discussed already and decided upon; I’m quite new to Beehaw / Lemmy, and this is on my mind so I figured I’d ask :)
You can just feed any paywalled site through archive.is to remove it.
Another one I found recently is 12ft.io
Nice! I havent heard of this one. I’ll have to install this on my partner’s phone. They have an iPhone (I have android). I usually just use the webarchives addon for Firefox mobile to open links in archive.is
I’ve found 12ft.io to be largely useless in my experience, it doesn’t do a shit ton of major outlets because they complained to the website and so it doesn’t seem to work
Morally that does feel a bit weird, because they need to get money from somewhere to do proper journalism
Works only for soft paywalls, like these “read 15 articles for free” ones, if it’s a hard paywall like stuff behind a Patreon or something it doesn’t help
That’s not true. For example, if I need to log in and pay to see the content at all, archive.is won’t help.