I will leave you with this: How to Bypass a Paywall

Consider that me acting as your Grizz and Dot Com bringing you your Sean Johns.

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    3 months ago

    Getting around paywalls is all well and good, but the trick to making them go away is for everyone to ignore them - and, by necessary extension, the content they protect - completely and entirely.

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        3 months ago

        It would displace a lot of it, yeah. That’s kind of the price we have to pay with capitalism being as rampant as it is now. There are supposed to be 2 sources of limitation on it - the government making laws and restrictions to prevent over-the-top business practices, and the people looking into the businesses they interact with to ensure they agree with its quality and profit strategies. It’s expected that people will go without things they want, need, and/or deserve in order to ensure improper business conduct receives low enough profits to dissuade businesses from going that route.

        We’ve been slacking as both a government and a populace for so long that now nearly all businesses are conducing themselves improperly, and the only real way to start correcting course is to abstain entirely from certain markets until there’s enough of a potential customer pool for a more ethical business to start up and thrive by supplying those people with the products and services they want in the way they want them to be supplied.

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        3 months ago

        Yes but everyone should log off the internet completely, forever.