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by flyingfences 1176 days ago
https://archive.is/fo3jV
2 comments

Thank you.

Very frustrating to notice half-way through the article that the text is slowly getting more and more pale - I thought my vision was going for a couple minutes or so, then I saw the "SUBSCRIBE"

No thanks, archive.is to the rescue!

Also effective: nuking the <head> section in dev tools.
Same. I appreciated the irony.

> THE FREE PRESS

> This post is for paying subscribers only

Free as in freedom, not free as in gratis
If i open source a project, but throw the code to the bottom of the mariannas trench is it open source? The issue with newspapers is that i need to pay for all of them individualy, they need to make a service like spotify where you subscribe and then the funds are allocated to each company dependant on what articles youre reading.
The paywall is still present here, but at least the ridiculous faded text is gone. Missing the ending but I guess the headline spoiled that anyway.
Reader mode (Edge browser) on the original page fixes that
That's not clear. The last line I get there is:

> That didn’t make us fire-breathing conservatives. It made us human.

Which doesn't seem like a sensical ending for this piece.