I can't count the number of HN links I've clicked that led me to the New York Times paywall in the last year. They've irritated me so much that i wouldn't pick up a RL paper of theirs if it was free.
Yeah it's a silliness in Australia where most of the online newspapers want a subscription, they're owned by two or three interests at a guess judging by the please pay box ... I routinely add the sods to the deny list just so I get an almost immediate alert that I need to click a few more results. As much as it would be interesting to read the local take on incident x ... I'll get by with a ten word summing up. More often though, in my locale (news sites that have paid areas as well as free access in Australia) the standard of reporting and writing has declined to the point I would be looking elsewhere to confirm anyhow or waiting a few days for the facts to align better.
The Advertiser in Adelaide is my local, though for me the home page is nothing but a cookie error for me on every visit. Saves me time and frustration not having to read it at all.
I'm developing muscle memory for the following sequence of interactions on mobile Chrome:
Tap the address bar
Tap the "copy" icon
Tap the archive.today shortcut
Tap the URL form field
Tap Gboard's "snippet" to paste the previously copied URL
Tap the "return" key
Tap to dismiss the "this page was archived x hours ago"
Double tap to zoom into the column of text in the desktop layout.
If anyone feels like creating it, an Internet Archive specific browser app for Android that just automatically redirects any and all pages to their archived versions would be a huge relief.
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Tap the "copy" icon
Tap the archive.today shortcut
Tap the URL form field
Tap Gboard's "snippet" to paste the previously copied URL
Tap the "return" key
Tap to dismiss the "this page was archived x hours ago"
Double tap to zoom into the column of text in the desktop layout.
If anyone feels like creating it, an Internet Archive specific browser app for Android that just automatically redirects any and all pages to their archived versions would be a huge relief.
I long for, dream of, fantasize about, a world where pop-up modals are either banned or easily blocked at a blanket-level.
For now I just ⌘W, but holy cow would it be nice to have a functional web without so much of the negative stuff JS et al have enabled.