Discussion

Apple threatened to remove Grok from the App Store over sexualized deepfakes, letter says

thakoppno: So much of the Internet is pay-walled now.It’s sad. It never occurred to me we’d get here.

nojito: Why is it sad for people to be compensated for their work?

pogue: This is getting totally out of hand. Nobody can pay a subscription for every single news site.If they were smart they would do a Netflix of news where you subscribe to one service and it gives you access to a ton of different subscription news sites.I've tried a dozen different paywall bypass services including bpc & archive.today and I can't get it to bypass this. I think the Google Rich Text trick might work but I'm on mobile atm.

sowbug: That's not what OP said.Sites displayed ads. Then they decided, or found, that ads didn't bring in enough revenue, so they added paywalls.Paywalls are annoying, they don't scale, and they break the promise of an open web. All that is sad.

lotsofpulp: The web is still open, anyone can post anything they want and anyone can see it (in the US, at least).An open web, to me, does not imply access to all resources.

jjmarr: It costs money to pay journalists.You get that money through advertising or subscription revenue.Advertising revenue is gone because everyone has adblock. Subscription revenue is gone because newspapers don't monopolize their localities, so news like this is republished in minutes by free websites.Traditionally this hole was filled by the wealthy buying newspapers then subsidizing them for "prestige". But this isn't really trendy anymore.> It never occurred to me we’d get here.My parents were journalists. This has been an issue since before I could read.