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I think it's reasonable to ask with respect to HN policy. It's hard to have a meaningful discussion when only a small percentage of the people on HN can read the full article.

What percentage of HN visitors do you think can read the full text of this article? 1% seems like a high estimate.

I beg to differ. HN’ers can always find something so abstracted from the article to debate about. This thread now, “Should news sites have paywalls?” “Should we ban pay walled news sources from HN?”. HN’ers are always down for a good debate!

I wouldn't mind paying if that meant i was free from all forms of tracking, selling my data, and ads.

Which isn't the case as folks paying for such services are the most valuable to advertisers.

No the parent, but... I think there's nothing wrong with paywalls. But this is not an ordinary one: I can't even pay, because their overpriced subscription is not available in my country.