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Most major news sites, as well as some other sites of reading content like Medium, have a paywall for certain articles, but those are easily defeated by people who bother to search the internet.

As I suspect said companies are aware of that, and they don't react to properly protect their paid stuff, what do they expect to gain?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Cost vs reward.

Is is worth spending several thousands of dollars to develop systems to block access. How many wil actually sign up?

[โ€“] ICastFist 1 points 5 months ago

The irony is that said systems that successfully block access are how many websites worked as far back as the late 90s, with "member exclusive" areas.