shackled

I wouldn’t quite call it a paywall. This article is free with an email sign up. They discussed this before and not sure I believe it but their reason/excuse for free email sign up was to combat AI scrapers. They noticed their articles were getting scraped by a few well known AI scrape and repost “news” sites.

Imagine showing this article title to someone from the great depression or even more recently a fire fighter who lived through 9-11…this time is wild