• utopiah@lemmy.ml
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    14 hours ago

    FWIW MSN is from Microsoft so IMHO might be better to link to the original source and, if need be, remind people they can either pay for journalist content or use services like archive.is which will bypass paywalls.

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      14 hours ago

      The Washington Post is owned by Jeff Bezos so I certainly wouldn’t suggest that anyone should pay them for anything.

      I do often use archive.is (which, FWIW, is “privately funded” by a person unknown and in 2025 still says in its FAQ “With the current growth rate I am able to keep the archive free of ads. Well, I can promise it will have no ads at least till the end of 2014.”) and it is certainly useful but via Tor or a VPN it often requires solving multiple recaptcha (google) captchas so it is not my first choice for bypassing paywalls.

      I am curious why @rossome@lemmy.ml got redirected to the MSN home page though; for me (with ads blocked by ublock origin) the page is loading just fine.