Paywalls

In the mid to lake 90s and the early two thousands we could browse from news site to news site. I would visit the Guardian, the Independent, Le Temps, Tribune de Genève, New York Times and more. I would also look at the RTS, BBC News and other sites to check a number of sites for news. With time that freedom was lost.

We lost that freedom because websites became paywalled. We lost that freedom because some sites made it so that we would browse, but see nothing, in effect being clickbaited into clicking to a link that said “To view this content you need to pay”.