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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.
Because you people refuse to pay. It's an absurd amount of entitlement.
You bitch incessantly about ads but refuse to pay 🤦♂️
Modern advertising is worth bitching about whether you’re willing to pay or not.
Nah. It's entitlement.
Ads are invasive, intrusive, and hardly actually worth the value they sell themselves for… but I guess I’m entitled for thinking so.
Personally, I remove about ads incessantly because they're not just ads anymore nowadays.
They serve double-duty as trackers, and with how easy it is for malicious actors to hijack them (and ad businesses like Google evidently not giving a fuck), they're a genuine security concern, too.
If ads were just ads, then I'd be fine with them. But their current state is just... bad.
Correct. The level of entitlement I've seen here on Lemmy is generally astonishing.
These companies have dozens of members of staff who absolutely deserve to be paid for their work. They're not allowed to run ads, they're not allowed to ask to be paid, what the fuck else are they supposed to do?
Fuck, even for YouTube - if you use the service, either pay, watch ads, or just don't use the service at all. It's not that hard.
I get it but if the work is to generate an unreadable article made by chatGPT then no thank you. Albeit they may generate using chatGPT because they're paid peanuts and just wanna go home🫤
I'm an avid reader and listener of NPR (and I do support my local station - fingers crossed we'll get the NPR+ bundle soon), and I have yet to see any article that even remotely seemed to be written by an AI.
What do we do in this case?
Thanks for the reminder about NPR+. I need to email my station to get rolled into it.
It's great stuff, but I don't like having to support individual shows - I want to just get the bundle and support all the big ones. :/ So bizarre that it's not available in every state.
Hopefully they roll the bundle out soon nationwide. I was kinda surprised to see my small town station already supported.
[ cries in WNYC ]
We refuse to pay for something that is already profitable?
What happens when we all subscribe and they decide to raise the price 'just because'?
Don't be a useful idiot.
That’s a terrible argument.
That’s like saying I pay tax, I don’t need to pay for groceries.
I'm tempted to think that you are trolling. But you are using the internet for a thousand things. Including typing here. You are paying for the ability to access services, not to get free services from everyone globally.
"I already pay for shoes - I should be able to walk into any shop and take stuff"
You pay for the companies providing the services to get you access to the internet, but you don't pay for the content of the internet.
Wow, when is the last time you've touched grass? You are holed up deep in that fantasy land.