Some paywalls have gotten harder to bypass since then. Personally, I subscribe to the NYT, WaPo, and theinformation.com, some can be read in incognito mode, and I've given up in exasperation with the WSJ and foreignpolicy.com.
I'd love to see a startup do a Spotify-for-news model, where I pay $10/mo and they allocate it to all the news sites proportional to clicks or time spent. Surprisingly, dealing with newspapers is even more impossible than dealing with music labels.
Some paywalls have gotten harder to bypass since then. Personally, I subscribe to the NYT, WaPo, and theinformation.com, some can be read in incognito mode, and I've given up in exasperation with the WSJ and foreignpolicy.com.
I'd love to see a startup do a Spotify-for-news model, where I pay $10/mo and they allocate it to all the news sites proportional to clicks or time spent. Surprisingly, dealing with newspapers is even more impossible than dealing with music labels.