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by disgruntledphd2 1692 days ago
Newspapers are businesses.

Reporting costs money. Free news is generally paid for by the funder. Given the above, how is paywalled content hurting the news industry?

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It's not hurting the news industry... maybe. It's polluting the HN newsfeed... maybe.

I for one won't subscribe to paywalled sites i only occasionally get links to on HN or other news aggregators just because they're linked here.

Funny enough, I am subscribed to a site that gets linked on here semi regularly. Not paywalled, ads or pay for no ads/tracking. But I've been reading it longer than I've read HN.