Yeah the article stub doesn’t link to the article. It links to a login flow with the article id. If you go directly to the article you get redirected if you don’t have a session.

It’s incredibly easy to make an impossible to get around paywall. Porn has done it since the Internet existed.

In this very particular situation I’m glad most companies are lazy and stupid.

I don’t particularly care if a company does pay only content. I think its legitimately ok. I hate companies that don’t make you pay enough for the service to cover their costs thus leading to complete enshitifaction.

It hurts me that I wrote grateful… if I had considered my reply longer than I took to take a dump I wouldn’t have written it that way. My apologies

We were fucked long before this clown showed up. If anything we should be grateful that he shine the light on it by being so obvious about it.

Time to start dragging billionaires into the streets.