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[–] senoro@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don’t know man, if you are reading the guardian that much it might be time to start paying, it’s not like they are asking an extortionate amount from you either. Especially if you want to support the newspaper as it’s not a super profitable business to begin with.

The financial times is £35 a month on the cheapest subscription they offer so you could be paying much more.

[–] duncan@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

To be clear, I'm not against paying for it - they do fantastic journalism and it's worth supporting them. It's just a surprise that they've implemented this given their stance has previously been very anti-paywall, instead making their money through other means.

In terms of the numbers, the usage to hit the paywall is about 4 articles a day, and they send out on average around 3 breaking news notifications a day so you just need to click on all of those to come very close to the limit. That might just mean that they send out too many notifications though!