• Cyborganism@lemmy.ca
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    Man I really hate these website where you have to have a subscription to read the article.

    Every fucking conservative piece of shit toiletpaper rag is free, but anything to the left of these whether it’s liberal or even socialist is all pay to read.

    Here’s the archive.org version: https://web.archive.org/web/20250215031214/https://www.wired.com/story/cisa-election-security-freeze-memo/

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    FUUUUUUU even the archive.org version has this javascript shit that hides the article. wtf!!!

    EDIT2:

    I added an extension to disable javascript for specific websites and I can now read it.

    • TheTechnician27@lemmy.world
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      Every fucking conservative piece of shit toiletpaper rag is free, but anything to the left of these whether it’s liberal or even socialist is all pay to read.

      Did you consider that it might be because one is actual journalism and thus requires a lot of time and effort to perform, while the other one is petulant, bigoted crying in a way that a high schooler could write with zero or minimal fact-checking in 20 minutes?

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        Yes of course. Doesn’t mean we shouldn’t have access to that information.

        Where I live, (Québec) we have LaPresse, LeDevoir, LaTribune/LeSoleil/LeQuotidien/etc which are an information coop, which are all free but have the option to have a paid subscription or rather to support the paper. There’s also tons of special federal and provincial measures to financially support journalism in Canada.

        But I forget this is the US.

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        And, obviously, the parasitic “elites” are now than happy to sink whatever costs are necessary to spread their fear based propaganda.

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      That’s because their interests align with the mega-rich. They can afford to give away content and hire interns to sexually harass. Honest orgs have little funding by comparison.

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      FYI, uBlock with Annoyances: EasyList - Annoyances enabled did the trick for me.

      I was generally happy with uBlock before, but then I found the dashboard and checked all the boxes for Annoyances and oh man! So much better!

      Edit: Oh, bit thank you for the warning! You know, when I was younger I honestly thought the <flash> HTML tag was the worst…I kinda miss it now, isn’t that fucked up?! But, I mean, in comparison…

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        I was generally happy with uBlock before, but then I found the dashboard and checked all the boxes for Annoyances and oh man! So much better!

        So… can you hook a guy up with info on this?