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.
Morally that does feel a bit weird, because they need to get money from somewhere to do proper journalism
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
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