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Even on actually respectable newspapers. Spiegel Online for example has this in place...


Spegel Online also does "pay or okay" (pay or accept tracking), so maybe at some point it's time to re-evaluate their respectability.


Many media do this these days, it's become an industry standard.

And to be fair I do get the point why they are doing that, good journalism has to be financed somehow lest you end up with a situation like in Austria where corruption scandals involving government-paid ads wrecking the entire political establishment and media elites of the country [1].

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96VP-Korruptionsaff%C3%A4r...


> good journalism

lol

I do agree though, on a more general level: it does take money to produce those articles, authors gotta get paid.

However, IMHO, not at any cost.




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