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by serial_dev 957 days ago
First of all congrats on the project and thank you for open sourcing it.

> Freedom of information is an essential pillar of democracy

However, this reads like this tool saves democracy by letting you bypass a crappy pay wall on a site you visit once a year, and that whoever wants to get paid for their published content online is an enemy of democracy.

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Ironically, the rest of the paragraph you quoted from gives their reasoning why they believe this tool is needed beyond "whoever wants to get paid for their published content online is an enemy of democracy". Double-plus democracy and all that...