I think they’ve always been like this for some of their posts, and honestly I’m considering getting a paid subscription to support them. Sucks, but they’ve been putting out quality content in exchange for your email address and some metrics - I’d call it a fair trade.
“Sign up for free access.”
https://archive.ph/d6LEb
Nooo I was liking 404 :/
Sucks to see them enshittified too…edit: that was too harsh, I take it back.
I think they’ve always been like this for some of their posts, and honestly I’m considering getting a paid subscription to support them. Sucks, but they’ve been putting out quality content in exchange for your email address and some metrics - I’d call it a fair trade.
They are doing it because of AI scraper. But that is for some time now already
How does this stop AI scrapers?
It’s more difficult to crawl a webpage if under a login wall so you will have less crawlers flooding your site
It is legitimately free after you sign up, I get their reasoning but is kinda annoying.