• Corgana
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    313 months ago

    If you’re not familiar, 404 Media is definitely worth supporting. High quality, no-bullshit journalism.

    • kate
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      153 months ago

      that’s been my experience too, and i love high quality journalism, but i really don’t need more online accounts with my email address tied to them

      • @thingsiplay@beehaw.org
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        93 months ago

        Plus I don’t want to be tracked what I read and click. But maybe this is a way to fight AI bots from training? Also in future high quality journalism will become more important than ever.

          • kate
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            23 months ago

            but my issue with requiring an email is that i don’t want to receive emails from them for any reason ever

            • @Ilandar@aussie.zone
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              23 months ago

              I’m not sure I understand your problem here. Mailing lists can always be unsubscribed from and they wouldn’t have your real email on file. Just use the alias to sign into the website and read there. Unless you’re saying you want everything for free without giving anything in return?

              • @millie@beehaw.org
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                13 months ago

                Do we want free articles on the internet? Like we’ve had for the past 30 years until some publications decided in the last 5 years to start paywalling everything?

                Yes. Yes I do want free articles on the internet. And once upon a time, publishers actually wanted my eyeballs on their free articles.

                • @Ilandar@aussie.zone
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                  13 months ago

                  Once upon a time, social media didn’t exist. Once upon a time, people bought newspapers. Many things have changed over the decades that led to the media industry adopting paywalls and a subscription-based business model. 404 Media is unusual in that it continues to provide free articles to those who subscribe to its email newsletter, which I think is a fair trade.

                  • @millie@beehaw.org
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                    23 months ago

                    That’s not unusual at all. What’s unusual is for a small publisher like 404 to demand an email address before letting you view their articles. Personally, it means I don’t read them.

        • kate
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          43 months ago

          yeah bots famously can’t enter an email address