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The irony is that Bloomberg is complaining about Google charging for formerly free stuff while Bloomberg is doing the same thing Google is.

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I dunno if it is that ironic. Google basically sold people on the idea of their services because they were free whereas Bloomberg never claimed to be free. When was a Bloomberg subscription ever free?

> When was a Bloomberg subscription ever free?

I don't think anyone is claiming that a full Bloomberg news subscription should be free. He's talking about the practice of popping up a paywall after baiting the reader with a few seconds of reading time and a few free articles. This was introduced around May 2018.

https://www.thedrum.com/news/2018/05/03/bloomberg-goes-behin...

This thread was detached by rabid mods, but in response to your comment, why is Bloomberg not entitled to charge for their self-produced analysis?

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