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Originally Posted by kjk
My point is, and this is not just Apple, that some companies balance out convenience and trusting their users to do the right thing.
I know everyone here is smirking at their supposedly lame attempts, but I have a feeling they know what they are doing-trying to balance accessibility with some way of pushing their subscription service, and relying on the belief that those who value their services won't try to bypass their obviously easy to jump over gate.
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But, for those with the coding know how to do a paywall, they could have not had it be bypassable while at the same time made it just as easy for people to use their site, and adding zero difficulty at all to making the site. In fact, some ways are easier to make, and the end user would be unable to tell the difference without looking at the source and trying to figure out how it was made.
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Originally Posted by kjk
But honest people will, in fact, use the right lane.
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But what if you were in the other lanes to begin with? If you were someone who had javascript turned off by default, for security purposes, you'd never knew there was a paywall. Are they dishonest? Many people access news sites while at work, and I know of many companies that have javascript disabled, to cut down on security risks. It isn't an uncommon thing, and their dev team should have taken it into account.