Yes. Paywalls surviving is such a disappointing development in the evolution of the internet.
I'd really like to have a browser extension that could remove links to paywalled sites from search engine result pages and popular news aggregators. I don't really need to see that part of the internet or be reminded of its existence.
Over the nytimes "please sign up online but phone retention during business hours to cancel unless your jurisdiction makes that illegal" paywall at least.
They really need to change the cancel process. It makes them seem like amateurs. I feel like Sirius radio and the nytimes are run by the same people, and if you’re the nytimes that’s a problem.
Its a common naivete of older technical folk who are used to being in a "special category" of people who know what X tool is and how to use it. They view other people consuming adverts as the answer while they know how to get around them. Except that, now, Brave and similar poducts mean everyday users utilise these tools too, so no adverts get viewed.
I think paywalling something but with a much lower on the spot cost, as an instant microtransaction without an account.
I find the anthropomorphisms of "swallowed" and "ate" and "cheated death" so annoying that it's hard to read the article. I really wish science writers would tone this nonsense down. It gets in the way.
What would you prefer? The astrophysical process you’re referring to is called accretion [1]. It is a single word that covers many different situations that are all the result of the same underlying phenomenon: gravity.
NYT isn't the right place to read much these days. Just a bunch of old racist/transphobic neo-liberal trust fund babies writing nonsense. There are many more higher quality leftist oriented websites.
