Why don't you subscribe?
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this is the epitome of laziness.
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It would be much lazier to give in.
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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
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Pay for content or get ads. Reporters, photographers, editors work hard and should be paid a salary. Ad blocking is stealing.
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No, adblocking is fixing newspapers' broken UX. I'd pay in a second if they didn't autorenew + deliberately make it hard to cancel.
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Adblocking is fomenting a broad industry improvement in ad standards. There's common ground between good UX and ad-revenue business models.
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1. Pay for content 2. Turn off ad block 3. Inspect element, remove paywall from the DOM
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number 3 won't be possible very soon: https://blog.chromium.org/2017/05/goodbye-pnacl-hello-webassembly.html …
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How is WebAssembly related to this? It doesn't change how DevTools work or how content is rendered.
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It would turn your website into an interactive canvas, would be much more difficult to block ads in this scenario.
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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).
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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.
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subscribe if you like their content Paul .. not to be too judgemental but I think you could swing a subscription.
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That's fair, but newspapers would make much more money by listening to people like
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He's doing a favor by vocalizing this. Opaque pricing+autorenewal+hard to unsubscribe+bombarding with ads is exploitative+unfair to readers.
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The journalists writing for these news outlets also deserve better than these business decisions.
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