also feel free to comment your own suggestions for news sites for tech updates that don’t pay wall on the web page.
New York times - https://www.nytimes.com/section/technology abc - https://abcnews.go.com/technology
the hill - https://thehill.com/policy/technology/ BBC news - https://www.bbc.com/news/technology
while nonprofit Npr doesn’t pay wall, they have a new pop up that says something along the likes of “expected a paywall not our style please donate” that the user can dismiss and continue browsing the site. https://www.npr.org/sections/technology/
Reuters use to be a good source for me untill they started pay walling after a small amount of news article reads.
Reuters just asks for a sign up which is annoying but at least it’s free
true, but i’m not signing up for something I check once in a blue moon. and I suppose technically it isn’t a paywall, but it could turn into to one, or it might as well be one, what else does this pop up serve, to protect the site from bots?![](https://lemmy.kya.moe/imgproxy?src=lemmy.world%2fpictrs/image/b2524408-0f30-4e5e-b267-d317835981b1.png)
It’s still free to you. It’s not a paywall.
Mind you, you’re not contributing at all to support the material you’re consuming — there are other humans trying to make a living off the stuff you want for free.
Support things you value, otherwise they might disappear. Or worse, they introduce a true paywall.
Reuters is a bit different as a newswire, though. Their main customers are other news outlets.
That’s fair.
Maybe Reuters is finding that “end users” are becoming their new customers, especially in the current media climate.
At first blush, I think it’s ok to want to track that type of impact more.
I’d argue that it is a paywall—you’re just paying in data rather than currency.
(A lot of these can be bypassed, with varying amounts of inconvenience, by deactivating Javascript for that site.)