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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?
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.)