Just use the website; there are annoying pop-ups asking you to subscribe, but they don't limit how many articles you can read.
this post was submitted on 07 Aug 2023
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I used to subscribe, but I still got the annoying pop ups so I unsubscribed.
I uninstalled the app last month and use the website instead too. I put a shortcut on my homescreen so there's barely a difference.
Worth it tbh.
The only thing I object to is having to sign in. Even with lemmy, if I could stay fully anonymous, I would.
But the Guardian tends to do responsible reporting, which is vanishingly rare.
Their opinion pieces and lifestyle sections are a bit crap though.
That's the truth, but that tends to be true of any newspaper type news service now (and has been true of lifestyle sections going back as long as I've been alive lol).
Sometimes the lifestyle stuff is quite funny. Wasn't the one guy at one point who was documenting his war with a squirrel?
A headline with "quietly" in it is guaranteed to be clickbait.
"Quietly" means "They told everyone but we want you to be more outraged."
Get Pressreader. Your local library probably has a membership. It has the Guardian for free.
Ooh,. Is pressreader any good? Do you just get a PDF-ish version of the print edition which you have to try and zoom and swipe around to navigate and read, or is it a bit easier to use than that?
Quietly?
I'm not sure how quiet it is if it's a image that covers the screen.
Perhaps a better title would have been "The Guardian website has a paywall."
Yeah, I read it in a browser. It started restricting my access to compete articles so I had a think and decided I'd pay for it. I don't read it loads and I'm not rich so I pay IIRC £2 a month. Problem solved. Real journalism seems to be having a hard time these days, and I can see why - back in the days before everything was online I would buy a physical newspaper every day. So news media have lost the income from all those people like me who stopped buying newspapers, they've got to make it up through advertising or through a pay-for-content model.
I don't like paywalls because I don't like the idea that information should be restricted to those who can afford to buy it. But TBF that was the way it was back when you had to physically purchase a newspaper. The alternative is a load of intrusive advertising. Or articles written cheaply by chatGPT or whatever. Money to pay the wages for journalists to research and write articles has to come from somewhere.
Oh no! Anyway …
The guardian seems to be losing money like a sieve.
Try this . It’s supposed to get you past paywalls.
Damn, just give them some money. Journalism is important.
Cool, thanks!
I just tested it on NYT and it is disabled for that site :(. But I’ll bet it’ll come in handy elsewhere.
Good luck!
https://www.shacklefree.in/ Enter the website into this paywall remover and you will be able to browse. Changing your IP (switching vpn server) should also give you a new "set" of articles to read.
Or you could just pay for quality journalism. Otherwise the likes of the Sun win and the entire industry of journalism will just descend into propaganda pieces and ex MPs pushing whatever particular agenda they're being paid to push today.