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Jeff Johnson's stopthescript and stopthemadness safari plugin for ios and mac os bypasses most paywalls and actually disables javascript. Inline included.
Doesn't work for most stuff anymore either. I've been using this after archive.ph became captcha hell and 12ft.io got blocked
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One reason: it wouldn't be a penny. You're off by a factor of probably 100.
Ads pay pennies though. So maybe he's merely off by a factor of 5?
Also, ads aren't paying everyone's bills -- hence the paywalls -- so that number must be too low.
(Not to mention the other issue with this: in general it's not ads or micropayments/paywalls -- it's ads and micropayments/paywalls. Hell, if micropayments were feasible, it would probably be all three.)
lol what do people expect? You say you want a web without ads, now you want a web without paywalls. Sorry, but... pick one. Or watch as the internet collapses.
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Ads pay pennies though. So maybe he's merely off by a factor of 5?
How many ads will there be, though? Also, ads aren't paying everyone's bills -- hence the paywalls -- so that number must be too low. (Not to mention the other issue with this: in general it's not ads or micropayments/paywalls -- it's ads and micropayments/paywalls. Hell, if micropayments were feasible, it would probably be all three.)
I'm not paying $5/outlet/month though, ever!
lol what do people expect? You say you want a web without ads, now you want a web without paywalls. Sorry, but... pick one. Or watch as the internet collapses.
Those are far from the only options available. Recently platforms such as patreon have shown that it is completely feasible for a small subset of enthusiastic fans to financially support some creator that makes their content freely available to anyone with an internet connection. And sharing low-to-medium effort content like articles for free purely out of passion without any expectation of financial gain has been a…
> And sharing low-to-medium effort content like articles for free purely out of passion without any expectation of financial gain has been a part of internet culture for a long time,
Where? Sites like Wordpress or Medium are ad-driven. Or you have to create your own site, which means paying for hosting.
20 years of World Wide Web and we still don't have micropayments so we can just pay a penny to read an article. Why does it take us so long?
lol what do people expect? You say you want a web without ads, now you want a web without paywalls. Sorry, but... pick one. Or watch as the internet collapses.
The internet will also collapse when everything has turned into ad-optimized clickbait. There is no shortage of brilliant people who are happy to share their creative work for free. Remember blogs and RSS? They were great. Static pages don't cost anything to host either. I reject your false choice.
Really? Who's hosting static pages for free? Github? Because they certainly still make money, they're just hoping to upsell people. If static sites for Github become a major cost you can bet they'll find a way to subsidize, such as advertising.
lol what do people expect? You say you want a web without ads, now you want a web without paywalls. Sorry, but... pick one. Or watch as the internet collapses.
The internet existed before paywalls or ads. Maybe not in its current form where faang gets to make billions loads of services are free, but fundamentally it can exist
Doesn't work for most stuff anymore either. I've been using this after archive.ph became captcha hell and 12ft.io got blocked
archive.ph is captcha hell if you use Cloudflare DNS because drama: https://twitter.com/archiveis/status/1018691421182791680