Why, tho?

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It guess it says enough about them

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Everyone is doing this, partially to stop AI scrapers and bots. It’s a bit weird on an “about” page, but welcome to 2025 and the dead internet.

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Anybody else remember when easy access for bots and scrapers (a.k.a. the “semantic web”) was considered a feature?

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We can’t have anything nice

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What a great idea. Next time someone asks me my name and to tell them a bit about myself, I’ll tell them to pay up first.

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Police! Identify yourself!

Sure, just join my paid subscription!

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Honestly I’d guess it’s an oversight

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I’m 99% sure it’s something they just apply to all pages, not something done on purpose. Probably never even thought about it, everyone here is so quick to assume the worst.

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Mindlessly shoving a paywall on every page on the site is both lazy and indicative of their priorities. Nobody has to do it purposefully for it to still be shitty and revealing.

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Nobody has to do it purposefully for it to still be shitty and revealing.

Or… and I could be wrong here…

It takes money to create the resource they’re providing and are simply asking to be paid for you to access it. At the very least to cut on bot scraping so login to prove you’re not a bot.

Doesn’t have to be shitty at all unless you believe that they shouldn’t be paid at all and should incur the cost of bots.

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Let’s you can read the privacy policy and stuff like that…

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I’m not sure that’s better, though.

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