Piracy

Also keep in mind that paying for news often leaves the poorer community without information. While yes, i agree that journalists should be compensated, news organisations have become profit seeking businesses since the 70s, and not, as they should be, places of information gathering for everyone.

A paywall prices poor people out of information. And things like this still help them.

The guardian should be lauded for their model yes, but that is one company. They can't write about everything.

I was donating to the Guardian for a few years until my financial situation changed, is it much the same nowadays? It’s been a while, and in today’s world I feel like it’s much too easy to accidentally support bad actors (like if one joined or stayed in Twitter or Reddit today) just by lacking context.

I don’t read all that much international/English news, but when I do, it seems by habit I tend to just go to the guardian. But really wouldn’t want to support questionable ethics or stances.

Note there are also instructions to make this (partially) work in browsers that are not supported by this extension: https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-clean-filters. I’m using it in Safari on iOS with Userscripts and AdGuard, which works pretty well.

You can still install it manually by downloading the extension file.

except on android :(

Thanks for this! Off to test now

Scribe.rip for Medium.

Just replace "Medium.com" or any Medium base URL with "Scribe.rip".

They also bended over to NYT. Cowards.

(If you start a site like this, you surely can count on that somebody will be after you. Host it in different country, pay with Bitcoin, hide your registrar data etc so they cannot sue you. If you cannot guarantee it, why start it?)

I think archive.ph works with Medium last I tried.

Pretty sure they do take money, I've had some websites not work and it showed some sort of message. I forgot exactly what it said but it wasn't an error.

It's actually frightening how much is spent on right wing propaganda. I know there are whole businesses dedicated to posting on social media pretending to be genuine users. The last election in Illinois they mailed out fake newspapers with all kinds of nonsense in them. They even have country music tours that go to small towns with political messaging.

The us right is the local bourgeoisie and it’s propaganda is intended for everyone so everyone doesn’t climb over the fences and eat them alive. The us “left” is the national bourgeoisie and their propaganda is directed at their members and collaborators so as to maintain unity.

archive.is has been down for more than a week now. archive.org doesn't seem to work as well (at least according to my experience). 12ft wall just gets paid by some news sites to get their site excluded. Is there anything that's still usable?

Btw, y'all still using this community? The "official" one that migrated from reddit is at [email protected] and our community is bigger.

And IrishTimes.com also somehow

Use the extension mentioned in the above comments

Try archive.ph