[stetrain]

My personal experience with this has been that paying for a subscription still gets me inundated with ads and marketing (often more now that I'm on their official mailing list), is still inconvenient since I may not be logged in to every news site on every device where I may follow an article link, and leaves me to fight through dark patterns to unsubscribe, since a button to allow you to cancel online is clearly dark magic that has not yet been invented.

I do wish there was a better way for me to share an account across multiple news sites that let me properly pay for good journalism without these issues. I do subscribe to a very local news source that seems to handle this a lot better, but they also don't paywall (most) of their primary content.

In the meantime I do find it strange that so many sites wish to gain the advantage of advertising that they have put up an article on the web, without actually providing that article. I have no issue with paid content, but when that content gets listed in search engine results and social media links like a web page, but clicking on it does not behave like a web page, It feels something feels like something has broken from the idea of the linkable World Wide Web.