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Yikes, I hate to be "that" person, but when I pulled up that link it was worse than a paywall. They said I can either subscribe, or whitelist them on my adblocker. No preview of the content or anything.

No thanks, I'll take a pass on the malware this time and just read the comments from people willing to get through on here.

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No need to hate being that person! The bullshit paywalls are obnoxious! It's good to know I'm not the only one annoyed!

Honestly, how are they obnoxious? They're asking you to pay for a service. I wish there were more paywalls in online journalism. Low-quality ad-funded journalism is how we get clickbait and crap like the Huffington Post.

Do you subscribe to all of the sites with paywalls?

Why not make it simple?

Maybe like a PayPal for Paywalls, to start a subscription with one click?

Not the grandparent, but I don't run an ad blocker, which is how I "pay" for the sites. I do run NoScript, but I'll enable sites like the NYT.

It's sad how the entitlement mentality convinces people that they not only have the right to consume all media on the web for free, but they also have the absolute, inalienable right to view it without looking at ads. Because the

It seems very juvenile to me. "I want everything for free, even if it does cost money to create, and if I can't have it free, I'm going to post to complain about it!"

Interesting. I am getting no nagging or blocking at all with uBlock Origin. No ads either.

Weird, I'm using uBlock Origin and am getting the "whitelist us or pay" message.

I've survived 21 years on the internet with no AdBlock, until 1 week ago a horrible TalkingPointsMemo link that autoplayed shit all over the place was the final straw.

But using AdBlockPro, I had no issues with this link.

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