[dredmorbius]

As to the article: I've already read it. I'd clicked through to the link (from my Reddit blog) to confirm it addressed what I'd remembered. And I'm sharing it here which may drive slightly more clicks to washpo's site. But, because I got smacked by the nagwall (and again, having already read the article), no.

NY Times has a similarly annoying practice of disabling copy/paste from articles (trivial to get around on various browsers, but not Chrome/Android), so I frequently point to Outline for that as well.

I sympathise with the problems of publishers. But I've also done a lot of research and thinking on this, and they're fundamentally fighting a losing war.

Either go fully behind a paywall (and suffer the consequences of that), go nonprofit (see ProPublica, ICIJ, NPR/PBS), find a patronage option, or ... well, I don't know.

But the system we've got (and which a great many HN folk are directly participating in, as I have myself) SIMPLY. IS. NOT. WORKING.

(It's one of a bunch of things that aren't working presently, though it ties in to many of the others in particularly distressing ways.)