[X] Mystery Solved

I've jaywalked thousands of times

if I misjudged just one time and caused a car to swerve to miss me there could be a serious accident

I need to repent for that too - it's not at all an innocent activity

when I'm driving I don't run red lights - but I've failed to come to a complete stop at thousands of stop signs

my burden is heavy - very hard for me to bear


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I’ve never paid for a news article online. I just can’t bring myself to do it for some reason. If I open an article I want to read and they block me with the “need to register/subscribe to read” thing, I just don’t read it and try doing my own research around the subject matter, if that makes sense.

I also don’t buy apps or pay for premium additions to apps or games or anything. I guess I’m just cheap like that.

The journalism quandary is a frustrating one, and there doesn't seem to be an actual solution.

I thought this said BEST paywalls- too bad.

Move this to the scame thread imo

The main problem that newspapers have and most likely won’t be able to overcome:
Oversimplified, there are three demographics in play. People born before 1970 like their printed newspaper. Unfortunately that’s increasingly unprofitable for the publisher. People born between 1970 and 1990 grew up with an internet where almost everything was free. For the couple things that weren’t free it was socially accepted to pirate them. People born after 1990 grew up in a world where the standard length of “news” is 140 characters.

Trying to discuss the problems with people not wanting to pay for content online is pretty pointless. That has been proven over and over again, including in this thread.

Jeez just the damn recipe section of the NYT alone is worth the online subscription price.

https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/...-pea-guacamole




Peas in guac???

That said, I'll probably still use the OP's trick. But I'll feel very conflicted about it.

Op getting flamed is funny. Didn't know oot was so legit and on the up and up

surprised you didn't mention the sunflower seeds

Thought about it, but Jack Allen's Kitchen in Austin pulls off pumpkin seeds on their guac.


Such a great ****ing menu for not that much money and delicious.


https://jackallenskitchen.com/wp-con...enu-6.23-1.pdf


edit:chicken fried beef rib isn't on this menu any longer, which sucks, but obv get the pimento cheese app.

I'll try any guac twice.

A similar trick frequently works utilizing a facebook redirect.

Yeah not like there's an "Everyday Scams" thread or anything.

The Billings Gazette just offered me 6 months for $1. I don't give a **** about the dollar, but signing up and all the BS for something I don't care if I read or don't is very annoying.

Yeah who needs journalists when Nicky Minaj can tell us about her cousin’s friend’s balls when we need to know about public health issues.

Pay for the content. We as a society need more of it, not less.

There are plenty of legitimate news sources out there that don’t charge for content. They understand that they can make money from high traffic sites and advertisements.

Stop acting like paying for a news article is some sort of noble deed to rescue the nation. It’s not.

I'd rather pay than have to disable my *********

and obviously that's not really the case, since trying to make money from advertisements is the first thing anyone tries on the internet, so it's not like they were sitting around brain storming on how to turn a profit and no one thought of that and instead they came up with "lets make a paywall!". Ad revenue from traffic obviously wasn't working, and it's not like these newspapers can run at a loss creating news articles because it gets people to watch their crappy 24/7 news channel

Free Press or Yellow Press...

hmmm, I'm out.

They were able to make ends meet just fine. But with the death of hard copies, they weren’t making as much profit as they were before so they made the paywalls. The press are for profit just like every other company but for some reason some of you act like they’re the saviors and guardians of the nation. They aren’t. I fully support a free press but some of you need a little perspective on who they are and what their role is. Especially when you consider how polarized most outlets are for both the left and the right. They’re a for profit political tool now, nothing more.

Also, I don’t know what you said on the first line because of the asterisks.

Obviously something that may prevent ad banners. I disagree with most of everything you wrote, but I'm just going to drink some cold beer and watch footbaw instead of arguing.

yeah, there is a reason they are all so polarizing, because they are trying to maximize profits and that comes at the expense of honest journalism. Which makes it more important to support honest journalism where it exists, because the alternative obviously has incredibly negative effects.

They obviously weren't making ends meat just fine because a bunch of them have closed or aren't actually making a profit. Also dunno why you think I don't know or understand they are trying ot make money, I think you are injecting your biases into the opinion im expressing.

it was add block

OP isn't stealing. OP is exploiting an intentional choice newspapers are making. They offer articles free to readers of search services in order to bring in traffic that way.

It's perfectly possible for these sites not to do that, but they choose to do so.

They believe they're making more money doing it this way, than not.

A few years back I implemented a news paywall. I could have gone the easy route which would not only have allowed what OP is talking about but also allowed ******* and javascript block to bypass the paywall. But I made sure to shut down all of that.

Edit: Heh they haven't turned off Mason's censoring of advertisement redaction software.