[lamestream]

I know, my first question was a joke; you're causing clickbaity headlines and inline ads by bypassing their paywall. You still haven't explained why it was worth your time to manually edit the frontend in Inspector when the article is such poor quality it's not worth paying for.

Google and Facebook ate the ad market. It doesn't matter if you win Pulitzer prizes or not, you need another source of revenue.

There's plenty of profitable paywall models, Wired, NYT, Economist. You haven't heard about any of the profitable models in the last 20 years?!

[marcus_holmes]

> I'm a geek, I enjoy messing with this stuff. The enjoyment of the technical challenge of "hacking" their paywall was more than worth the time it took. The article was probably not. Not sure I'd do it again.

I kinda did. You're obviously more interested in making "jokes" than reading the replies.

I do make a distinction between straight "news" sites and the more niche sites like the Economist, Wired, etc. I wasn't aware that NYT was now profitable via paywall - last I heard it was still struggling and laying off journalists, but I could be wrong.