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Originally Posted by alnorth (Post 9277497)

eventually they will fix that, too. Then all of you cheap, utterly immoral thieves will be forced to pay.

i wont be forced anything, i just wont read. lol

This is the direction that newspapers online have been headed for a while now. You can probably circumvent it if you wish to, but the reality is that if people don't pay for it then they will go out of business.

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Originally Posted by JohnnyHammersticks (Post 9277395)

And if I pay for it? I'm still going to have to sift through tons of annoying popup ads that somehow bypass my popup blocker. That's what all the ads are for, so they don't have to charge readers for content. If they're not profiting from ad revenue alone, then here's a thought--don't let all your good ****ing writers walk. No offense intended to Sam Mellinger.

How in the world do you expect a newspaper to pay for good writers if people are "stealing" good content? You do realize that when they sell banner advertising, you pay for number of impressions or pay-per-click, right? So every time you bypass the banner ad through an ad blocker or every time people copy-cut-paste an article and don't visit the website, you are hurting their ability to make money through online advertising.

Just hit ESC after the page first loads the article, it'll stop the script that brings the pay banner up.

Star is a business in business to stay in business and to make a profit. They do what they must do. They are not a non- profit or a poorly run government program.

Print media is becoming obsolete, ahh well. Surely they can get all of those annoying ads and not charge like most everyone else yes?