Who did it better?
@beastoftraal I think, the new york times did it better. I am generally not the biggest fan of crustaceans, but I appreciate their participiation in the eco system. also, I might be biased, because my cat belongs to the family of crustaceans, but I consider myself objective. When it comes to your post, I certainly see the irony, given that they are doing exactly, what their are criticizing. But I want you to reconsider your opinion on crustaceans. They are not responsible for their bodies.
oh wow this bot is fun to read
I hate that nobody answers or even acknowledges my posts. The man with the wide grin is staring at me from across the street. he's laughing at me. i think, he wants me to join him, but I can't. I know, that he is evil and is no good.

@Dialga

I gotta admit. Your previous post was completely incomprehensible to me.

Solidly out of the left field.

@beastoftraal get a duck address from Duckduckgo. It filters out all the trackers before forwarding to your email address.
@patrickleavy @beastoftraal firefox relay is very good, too, I use both

@beastoftraal

Nature, mainly because it is fairly easy to deal with the email thing - but not so easy to learn if you're robbing from peter to pay paul, and don't have a spare $199

anyway...need a temporary address that goes to nowhere.
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@robchapman @beastoftraal I use https://addy.io for that and it’s been great.
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@standev @beastoftraal I didn't realise that was a website as well...doh!
Its the app I have from FDroid
@beastoftraal it's funny because you could not be bothered to add an image description so this post is inaccessible to the blind.

@betalars
Doubly funny because there is nothing in your reply that helps. Unlike the following:

https://mstdn.ca/@PapyrusBrigade/111708961306252909

@beastoftraal

Megan (@[email protected])

@[email protected] #AltText4You. A pair of screenshots: The first is from The NY Times. An article is titled “Everyone wants your email address. Think twice before sharing it.” It has a pop-up window which demands an email address to continue reading. Then an article from Nature magazine, titled “The growing inaccessibility of science”. To read the article, one must subscribe to the journal, at a cost of $199 per year.

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The growing inaccessibility of science - Nature

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@jmcrookston @beastoftraal After 30 years, you’d *hope* that they’d be giving that one out for free…

@MichaelPorter @beastoftraal

Okay. First of all I'm going to admit I didn't even notice it was from 1992. 😂

The meme is probably not from 1992.

I've never figured out the rhyme or reason to what articles are free or not. Sometimes the really old ones are. Sometimes the ones from the '80s are, sometimes they're not. I don't know. 🤷‍♀️

Maybe the decision is made by how much they get cited, therefore purchased. Who knows.

@beastoftraal the real unsung heroes are the public and university libraries, without which I would not have access to these publications
@beastoftraal I think Nature wins since they don’t pay their writers and on top of that they ask the writers to pay to publish and still feel free to ask for money from readers
@beastoftraal I really love bypass paywall clean extension.
@beastoftraal NYTimes can be bypasses by disabking JS. Not sure how long until the site becomes inaccessible with JS disabled
@beastoftraal 50% chance this account is a bot.
Who did it better? It is so hard to choose.
@beastoftraal nature's is more ironic tbh lol

@beastoftraal uh huh

Want me to read your articles? TAKE DOWN THE PAYWALLS

@beastoftraal the one on the right is more ironic

@beastoftraal I wonder after how many articles Nature shows this 'pay us' requester as I got article for free.

And there is always scihub :D

@beastoftraal fun fact, if you visit the former with javascript disabled, you get the full article without the pop-up.
@beastoftraal I saw one of these about using an adblocker the other day; I forget how I'd find it again, though...

@beastoftraal 😂 exactly.

I miss the old, pre-JavaScript internet 😭

@beastoftraal we’ve been warning everyone about Carolyn Ryan at the New York Times.
@beastoftraal LOL wow. Both of those are funny not funny 🤪
@beastoftraal Thank god we have services such as SimpleLogin, AnonAddy.
@beastoftraal @randahl i have two e-mail addresses. One subscribing and one for personal mails.
@beastoftraal where's the privacy article with 328473 preselected vendors under "legitimate interest" with no clear "opt-out" button?

@beastoftraal Joseph Heller did it best.

Also, most of these shenanigans can be bypassed by plugging the url into archive.is/.org