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    Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 4 Aug 2017

    Wow, the Washington Post just became invisible.pic.twitter.com/PpUASYTTTB

    6:42 AM - 4 Aug 2017
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    • #CNXTer1 Oswald Yeo Dilip Chauhan Gregory & other Greg-like tendencies Pradeep Singh Yohanessalindeho 🔱libolin🇨🇳💯 Rajan Anandan Roman Ripa
    46 replies 44 retweets 196 likes
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      2. Edouard Theron‏ @edtheron 4 Aug 2017
        Replying to @paulg

        Why don't you subscribe?

        1 reply 0 retweets 14 likes
      3. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 4 Aug 2017
        Replying to @edtheron

        Paul Graham Retweeted Paul Graham

        https://twitter.com/paulg/status/856834081778274305 …

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        Paul GrahamVerified account @paulg
        Replying to @paulg
        I now assume all subscriptions (a) require too much work to sign up (b) autorenew and (c) deliberately make it hard to cancel.
        5 replies 2 retweets 25 likes
      4. Emil Caillaux‏ @emilcDC 4 Aug 2017
        Replying to @paulg @edtheron

        this is the epitome of laziness.

        1 reply 0 retweets 18 likes
      5. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 4 Aug 2017
        Replying to @emilcDC @edtheron

        It would be much lazier to give in.

        1 reply 0 retweets 17 likes
      6. Emil Caillaux‏ @emilcDC 4 Aug 2017
        Replying to @paulg @edtheron

        Give in to paying writers to read their material? If you pay for Amazon Prime, you can pay for this. And hey, you even get a discount.pic.twitter.com/8bIwtG6QWI

        1 reply 1 retweet 10 likes
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      2.  🇺🇸Michael Beavers‏ @beavers 4 Aug 2017
        Replying to @paulg

        Pay for content or get ads. Reporters, photographers, editors work hard and should be paid a salary. Ad blocking is stealing.

        7 replies 0 retweets 40 likes
      3. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 4 Aug 2017
        Replying to @beavers

        No, adblocking is fixing newspapers' broken UX. I'd pay in a second if they didn't autorenew + deliberately make it hard to cancel.

        10 replies 0 retweets 35 likes
      4.  🇺🇸Michael Beavers‏ @beavers 4 Aug 2017
        Replying to @paulg

        Adblocking is fomenting a broad industry improvement in ad standards. There's common ground between good UX and ad-revenue business models.

        1 reply 0 retweets 7 likes
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      2. Andrew Rasmussen‏ @a13n 4 Aug 2017
        Replying to @paulg

        1. Pay for content 2. Turn off ad block 3. Inspect element, remove paywall from the DOM

        1 reply 0 retweets 8 likes
      3. Leonardo Federico‏ @leonardofed 4 Aug 2017
        Replying to @a13n @paulg

        number 3 won't be possible very soon: https://blog.chromium.org/2017/05/goodbye-pnacl-hello-webassembly.html …

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      4. Ingvar Stepanyan‏ @RReverser 4 Aug 2017
        Replying to @leonardofed @a13n @paulg

        How is WebAssembly related to this? It doesn't change how DevTools work or how content is rendered.

        1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
      5. Leonardo Federico‏ @leonardofed 4 Aug 2017
        Replying to @RReverser @a13n @paulg

        It would turn your website into an interactive canvas, would be much more difficult to block ads in this scenario.

        2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      6. Ingvar Stepanyan‏ @RReverser 4 Aug 2017
        Replying to @leonardofed @a13n @paulg

        It most likely won't, canvas rendering is not an option for most websites, especially news ones (which is why it didn't rise already).

        1 reply 0 retweets 7 likes
      7. Ingvar Stepanyan‏ @RReverser 4 Aug 2017
        Replying to @RReverser @leonardofed and

        Even with JS/asm.js it was shown that you can render to canvas much faster than to DOM, but it kills accessibility which is critical.

        0 replies 0 retweets 9 likes
      8. End of conversation
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      2. Andrew‏ @AndrewBlejde 4 Aug 2017
        Replying to @paulg

        subscribe if you like their content Paul .. not to be too judgemental but I think you could swing a subscription.

        1 reply 0 retweets 10 likes
      3. Bonnie Kavoussi‏Verified account @bkavoussi 4 Aug 2017
        Replying to @AndrewBlejde @paulg

        That's fair, but newspapers would make much more money by listening to people like @paulg and improving people's subscription/ad experiences

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      4. Bonnie Kavoussi‏Verified account @bkavoussi 4 Aug 2017
        Replying to @bkavoussi @AndrewBlejde @paulg

        He's doing a favor by vocalizing this. Opaque pricing+autorenewal+hard to unsubscribe+bombarding with ads is exploitative+unfair to readers.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      5. Bonnie Kavoussi‏Verified account @bkavoussi 4 Aug 2017
        Replying to @bkavoussi @AndrewBlejde @paulg

        The journalists writing for these news outlets also deserve better than these business decisions.

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      6. End of conversation

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