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Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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no paywall

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (5 children)

"no paywall"?

there never was a paywall on tG, no?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No. The have nag screens for donations, but they don't block on principle.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago

disable JavaScript?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

no, I'm very certain I've never seen one, this article certainly doesn't have one

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

me neither. never

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

For me, the page doesn't allow me to scroll past the first sentence of the article.

Maybe it's because I'm using mobile Firefox with uBO? I only managed to read the article through here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

i'm on mull with ubo and i can read the whole article 🤷

[–] copd 2 points 2 months ago

Guardian have a paywall for their mobile app, you get a quota of articles per week.

However the website which is almost identical is unlimited

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Not a paywall you have to pay with money per se, but they require you to have an account and be logged in to fully see a profile, a post and its comments. Same goes for Facebook.