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> why not?

Easy: a link off their site doesn't earn them any money. They want to you stay on their domain.

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Is there a news site that does the opposite? Always cites sources, provide ample links throughout text?

that’s the site I’d subscribe to.

Exactly! Ars Technica usually does a pretty good job.

Believe it or not, Wikipedia.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events

Thanks. That works for international news reporting. It's a bit thin on local coverage, and anything that is non-news but usually part of a newspaper (opinion/debate, reviews...) isn't there. The easier it is to get the news bit everywhere, the more important the other parts of a newspaper becomes to me.

There is something called Hacker News

I dunno about always, but in this particular case The Verge hyperlinked to the order in the first sentence of their article: https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/25/21400240/epic-apple-rulin...

(and the greatgrandparent comment has the hyperlink from The Verge)

This is probably not relevant to you, but there is Republik, a Swiss-German online magazine. They extensively link to their sources (see e.g. [1]). There are no ads, no pop-ups, no donation requests, no paywalls, just a (somewhat expensive) paid subscription.

[1] https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&u=https:/...

But a link to a pdf (which they can just as easily host themselves) that doesn't link elsewhere isn't going to take you to other websites.

If you're reading a PDF then you're not looking at their ads.

Gotta edit the PDFs to put full page ads in between pages

Why not embed a PDF viewer into the webpage? I’ve seen some sites do that.

They just need to learn the magic of: target="_blank"

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