My brother said Apple News does this too— you have the optional ability to subscribe to newspapers using it, but the subscription only content shows up in your feed even if you don’t subscribe. They have an option to block particular publications from your feed as well so he tried that to omit the articles he couldn’t access, but instead of actually removing them it leaves a blank square in that space in your feed saying that you’ve blocked the content. IDK what they’re thinking.
Source is common sense. People either get annoyed enough to leave, or are dumb and stay. Well, third option - like with YouTube - is to circumvent their bullshit somehow. But that’s not possible with every platform.
Same unfortunate story with Google News, lots of articles that I cant actually read. On Facebook I filter out URLs that paywall their articles so the stories are hidden, but I don’t use Facebook more than once a month or so and nearly every chum bucket news aggregator out there does this.
My brother said Apple News does this too— you have the optional ability to subscribe to newspapers using it, but the subscription only content shows up in your feed even if you don’t subscribe. They have an option to block particular publications from your feed as well so he tried that to omit the articles he couldn’t access, but instead of actually removing them it leaves a blank square in that space in your feed saying that you’ve blocked the content. IDK what they’re thinking.
They’re hoping they can annoy people into subscribing.
And yet all they did was annoy people into leaving. The only ones left are those that think they can’t live without a platform.
Source? Would love to believe it, but… I don’t.
Source is common sense. People either get annoyed enough to leave, or are dumb and stay. Well, third option - like with YouTube - is to circumvent their bullshit somehow. But that’s not possible with every platform.
Pro tip: whenever someone asks you if you have a source and you say either “common sense” or “go find out”, you have just said “no I don’t.”
Why would this need a source? Is this scientific material or some shit? Do I have to include source of what I write every time?
Same unfortunate story with Google News, lots of articles that I cant actually read. On Facebook I filter out URLs that paywall their articles so the stories are hidden, but I don’t use Facebook more than once a month or so and nearly every chum bucket news aggregator out there does this.