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The Verge raises a partial paywall: ‘It’s a tragedy that garbage is free and news is behind paywalls’ (www.semafor.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 60 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

The official announcement says they did because people have been asking for a way to support the site, but it's not at all clear those people had a paywall in mind. Ars Technica has had subscriptions for years, and they paywall extra site functionality like topic filtering and a full-text RSS feed, not content.

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 17 points 2 weeks ago

This is the way.

Same with mobile apps. And give me a way to support a dev without using Google Play (I realize iOS is more problematic).