good suggestion, but the result is that they just think it is 'Private Mode' and ban reading past top section on that basis

Thanks! Why does this work?

Paying providers directly either means micropayments or committing to reading enough of that specific news source to get a non-micropayment-sized amount of value from it. No one has really cracked micropayments in a way that has caught on, yet, and the model of depending on a single source for a majority of news has gone the way of print newspapers.

Bloomberg, NYT, WashPo, the Economist, and other such places need to figure out how to provide value commensurate with the money they charge, or else figure out how to exist in a world where one of "their" readers still visits dozens or hundreds of other such outlets a month.

> Try 3 months for -$105- $6. Cancel anytime.

The 105 is just a joke, and even $2 a month is very high, considering there'd be similar payments to 20+ other such outlets.

More to the point, it's better to post links that are viewable by the full audience, where possible.

I'd actually be happy to pay substantially for a sufficiently broad spectrum of news from multiple providers

However, $100-$500 to each one that I want to read >5 articles per month is not sustainable.

We need one of two models:

Pay maybe $0.20/article, refundable if I don't finish, don't like it (obviously limiting the number of Refund hits/month to prevent abuse)

Pay once for a selection of feeds, say $100/quarter, and pick your favorite 5 out of 50, get unlimited reads from that batch and 10/month from the rest.

I'd happily sign up for either, but no one publication provides sufficient breadth to support at the demanded price level.