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Ask HN: Should we have a $ symbol for premium content

13 points by cpheimbach ↗ HN
It feels to me that the amount of shared articles which are behind a paywall are rising.

I wonder if HN’s usability would improve if these article would be marked with ($) or so.

I often click there for a cheap read on my commute and find it annoying when seeing a paywall rather than the article.

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tobylane
Some of them are aoft paywalls. Others are easily defeatable, though it may not be legal to link to a readable link.
Tomte
Can the forum software reliably detect that?

I find that „feature“ unimportant, but if it‘s something the submitter must do, I‘m strongly against it. I would ignore such a rule, unless there‘s near-unanimous consensus.

bradknowles
Yes.

There are work-arounds, sure. Maybe you could even build them into the submission process. But they should still be identified to begin with.

tonyedgecombe
I'd like to filter out certain domains, for instance there is no point in me visiting latimes.com because they block the EU.