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>>miiiii+(OP)
Webdevs, why, why o why, do you have to ask me to subscribe to the newsletter before you even let me read the first 5% of the article? Do you really thing people read the first sentence and then go "yes, i definitely want to receive spam from this website! here's my email address!" or what?

>>ajsnig+Tg
404 does it because they don’t like AI scraping. https://www.404media.co/why-404-media-needs-your-email-addre...

>>112358+Fi
I call BS on that. I can get the entire text of the article by just viewing the source, no email address needed. Even if it was somehow needed, it's trivial for a scraper to circumvent that.