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Why Children's Books?

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Re: Why Children's Books?

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Post by washadjeffmad »

dangerlibrary wrote: post #3

This paywall product must have required a staggering amount of work. And yet, the entire text of the article is right there in the network tab. Why send it over the wire, then try to hide it?

The people who write the content and build the site are different from the people who want the paywall?

Usually when it's that obvious, it's general courtesy not to go pointing it out.

Re: Why Children's Books?

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Post by dangerlibrary »

washadjeffmad wrote: post #4
dangerlibrary wrote: post #3

This paywall product must have required a staggering amount of work. And yet, the entire text of the article is right there in the network tab. Why send it over the wire, then try to hide it?

The people who write the content and build the site are different from the people who want the paywall? Usually when it's that obvious, it's general courtesy not to go pointing it out.

It seems intentional, though?

* There's an animation hiding it.

* If you disable javascript, the content doesn't load.

* Copying is disabled.

* There's some kind of javascript function constantly toggling state so that if you right-click inspect, the content div collapses before you can further unroll it.

Someone really wanted users to see the article, then watch it disappear, and make them feel a sense of loss.

Re: Why Children's Books?

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Post by CalRobert »

dangerlibrary wrote: post #3

This paywall product must have required a staggering amount of work. And yet, the entire text of the article is right there in the network tab. Why send it over the wire, then try to hide it?

Well that's _clearly_ a violation of the CFAA! \s

Once the manager wasn't able to see the text whoever did this was able to click "done" on the ticket and move on.

Re: Why Children's Books?

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Post by DiggyJohnson »

Rarely does an article swing paraphrase by paragraph between interesting analysis and the opposite as much as this.

Edit: guilty of my own snark, here is an excerpt from the conclusion that I appreciate:

> There’s no doubt that reading for pleasure as a child can change your life. It is a key predictor of economic success later in life. But the main reason to help children seek out books is this: if you cut a person off from reading, you’re a thief. You cut them off from the song that humanity has been singing for thousands of years. You cut them off from what we have laid out for the next generation, and the next. It’s in the technology of writing that we’ve preserved our boldest, most original thought, our best jokes and most generous comfort. To fail to do everything we can to help children hear that song is a cruelty – and a stupidity – for which we should not expect to be forgiven. We need to be infinitely more furious that there are children without books.

Re: Why Children's Books?

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Post by elliotec »

dangerlibrary wrote: post #3

This paywall product must have required a staggering amount of work. And yet, the entire text of the article is right there in the network tab. Why send it over the wire, then try to hide it?

Huh, it's not paywalled for me. I'm using Brave and have a robust Pihole situation but.. yeah it's all there
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