The TikTok ban and Donald Trump's rise to power show how fragile our social media accounts are. We must normalize and invest in decentralized social media.
Thanks for posting the text. I went to it again and this time instead of saying it was for paid subscribers only, it said I could view the article if I would sign up for a free account. I suppose they randomly pick one or the other approach, or maybe they try to get you to pay for a sub first, then try to get you to go for a free signup to at least get your email address.
I’ve never seen them use the “paid subscribers only” verbiage except on that bonus content stuff – maybe it is a bug that you saw that, or maybe the page accidentally loaded a different article somehow.
The “paid subscribers have ad free access” message looks like a paywall if you read it quickly, maybe something like that happened.
Either way most sites I don’t like giving an email address, but they have a respectable reason. They didn’t always require it, but scrapers kept reposting their work for ad profits, etc.. And for what it’s worth I don’t get any emails from them.
Thanks for posting the text. I went to it again and this time instead of saying it was for paid subscribers only, it said I could view the article if I would sign up for a free account. I suppose they randomly pick one or the other approach, or maybe they try to get you to pay for a sub first, then try to get you to go for a free signup to at least get your email address.
I’ve never seen them use the “paid subscribers only” verbiage except on that bonus content stuff – maybe it is a bug that you saw that, or maybe the page accidentally loaded a different article somehow.
The “paid subscribers have ad free access” message looks like a paywall if you read it quickly, maybe something like that happened.
Either way most sites I don’t like giving an email address, but they have a respectable reason. They didn’t always require it, but scrapers kept reposting their work for ad profits, etc.. And for what it’s worth I don’t get any emails from them.
I copied and pasted the message and it was the same article. If you don’t want to believe that, I really don’t care.
I believe it. I just don’t believe that’s the intended behavior.