AP News VS Bypass Paywalls

Observe how news media treat story like this. https://time.com - first page, main story, no photos https://www.reuters.com - no mention https://apnews.com - first page, 2nd block in list, no photos https://www.nytimes.com - second page, tiny block in list, no photos https://www.washingtonpost.com - second page, tiny block, no photos https://www.theguardian.com/world - no mention https://www.aljazeera.com - first... - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

If someone links to an article on the Associated Press's site (apnews.com) I'm fine with that. Source: 5 months ago

Same thing on apnews.com. I am afraid it is widespread. Source: 6 months ago

IRAN-US PRISONER SWAPAP has reported that Iran and the US are poised to exchange prisoners after a figure of $6 Billion has been “unfrozen” and forwarded to Qatar who are acting as an “honest broker” to facilitate the asset swaps with the receipt of the funds confirmed by Nasser Kanaani a spokesman for the Iran Foreign Ministry before he went on to confirm the swap would take place later today. At this stage... Source: 8 months ago

It's interesting to me that many threads here seem to imply that lower news consumption by Americans is bad and that the fault lies with the news industry. Ignoring whether it's bad or not, if Americans want mostly unbiased news, they have easy access to it on the web: https://www.reuters.com/ https://apnews.com/ Americans choose other sources for news... they're not forced to consume it. The "blame" lies with the... - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

What's the relation between the Gitlab repository and the Github one? https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome. - Source: Hacker News / 25 days ago

Sorry guys.. should've realized this was paywalled. I have the Bypass Paywalls plugin on my browser. Source: 5 months ago

Edit: Here's a good paywall blocker I use. Mobile users in shambles. Source: 5 months ago

FWIW I am happy that magnolia1234 forked iamadamdev's repo. I wanted to report that barrons.com is not working with the original repo (https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome was giving the following notice. An owner of this repository has limited the ability to open an issue to users that have contributed to this repository in the past. barrons.com worked out of the box with the new repo... - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

What a weird, overly-confrontational message from the fork's author! No need to call someone publishing work for free lazy, ignorant, not the sharpest tool in the shed etc. Plus, the original repository isn't even licensed https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome . So magnolia1234 probably forked it illegally after copying the name... - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago