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poguetoday at 2:08 AM4 repliesview on HN

This is getting totally out of hand. Nobody can pay a subscription for every single news site.

If they were smart they would do a Netflix of news where you subscribe to one service and it gives you access to a ton of different subscription news sites.

I've tried a dozen different paywall bypass services including bpc & archive.today and I can't get it to bypass this. I think the Google Rich Text trick might work but I'm on mobile atm.


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sssilvertoday at 5:13 AM

> If they were smart they would do a Netflix of news where you subscribe to one service and it gives you access to a ton of different subscription news sites

Isn’t this exactly what Apple News[1] is?

[1] https://www.apple.com/apple-news/

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goosejuicetoday at 5:49 AM

I'd rather have paywalls than the privacy shit storm ads on the internet brought us. Paying for content is totally fine.

You paid to read a book. You paid for the paper. You paid to see a movie. Yeah they had/have ads but not ones that retarget and manipulate you.

Think of how much more sane the world would be if you had to pay for Instagram and Facebook.

I say bring on the paywall.

jimjimjimtoday at 2:32 AM

Every newspaper had a price. People were happy with this.

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