Because, frankly, most of this content is very cheap.
As in the value of these 'news' is zero and often negative.
These are not starving journalists trying to reveal the 'truth'.
These are big corporate entities peddling a lot of fast food content and the agenda of their shareholders/sponsors. The 'real' journalists (if such a thing still exists) who work there get paid peanuts compared to how much they squeeze from the millions of readers through these anti patterns.
Now that they built this huge ship, they have to keep producing content just to keep it afloat, regardless of whether there's any value in it for the readers. Most of the time there is none.
Important news will reach you without any paywalls.
I don't feel entitled, in fact I don't really care about TFA.
The link was posted to HN and then immediately someone commented with a archive link, because the original link is not working for most of the people here who never pay for news, because they know better.
But the WWW is now broken for everyone because of this.
These are not starving journalists trying to reveal the 'truth'. These are big corporate entities peddling a lot of fast food content and the agenda of their shareholders/sponsors. The 'real' journalists (if such a thing still exists) who work there get paid peanuts compared to how much they squeeze from the millions of readers through these anti patterns.
Now that they built this huge ship, they have to keep producing content just to keep it afloat, regardless of whether there's any value in it for the readers. Most of the time there is none. Important news will reach you without any paywalls.
I don't feel entitled, in fact I don't really care about TFA. The link was posted to HN and then immediately someone commented with a archive link, because the original link is not working for most of the people here who never pay for news, because they know better.
But the WWW is now broken for everyone because of this.