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Re:State of web browsers in 2018 by bad_user on Thursday December 06, 2018 @11:40AM (#18619539)
People are bitching and moaning about Mozilla pulling an extension that works around paywalls from addons.mozilla.org, so do you honestly think that people are willing to "financially support the sites they visited"?

Without hitting a paywall that can't be worked around, hell will freeze over before that happens ;-)

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Re:State of web browsers in 2018 by sincerely on Thursday December 06, 2018 @02:08PM (#18621041)
People would be willing to if they had a choice that wasn't "Buy a year's subscription to our newspaper to read the one article you want"
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Re:State of web browsers in 2018 by jolmg on Thursday December 06, 2018 @02:14PM (#18621099)
I don't think they would on their own, but Brave's efforts to ease that path still seem commendable.
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