Let me guess: There are ways for Google’s scraping, search engine, and AI model training to bypass this.
My first thought.
That or if Google hosts the service, they will just charge you a nominal fee. So the user will put the money in the basket or else they scrape the content again.
Makes it easier to see which sites to avoid, I guess.
Yeah, I don’t care if they invent a paywall that jumps out of the screen and gives me a top notch scalp massage. I don’t do paywalls.
How do you support the media you consume?
The cost of consuming media doesn’t match its worth.
I never used ad blockers until they became invasive and disruptive.
That’s their secret, captain. They don’t.
Or, TBF, like in free-to-play games, they are subsidized by paying/non-ad-blocking users.
Drastically reducing website traffic speedrun any%
So Google shuts you out of their rankings and results to sell this. Fuck you.
a paywall I am sure will be exactly as effective as google’s attempts at ad-blocking on YouTube, for exactly the same reason: a dedicated group of pissed off nerds who spend their time getting around it as a service to everyone. Bypass Paywalls Clean is already a thing.
Meanwhile, publishers: “why is everyone using AI instead of viewing our sites themselves?”
I’m offering anyone using the service a chance to fuck right off.
So, once somebody figures out how to easily bypass this, that’ll work in my favor in the end I hope.
I wonder how much it’ll integrate with Chrome to prevent tampering. I know it’ll probably not be perfect, but….
Hopefully ublock can handle those.
I don’t need whatever’s behind that nonsense.
