MEDIAWATCH: Stuff expands gated community paywall onto mobile – TDB will never be behind a Paywall
I noted recently that Stuff had expanded their gated community paywall across their laptop accessible website but had left it off the mobile accessible version, well, they have it on the mobile accessible site as well now.
I think this is a terrible blunder by a desperate Stuff.
A lot of people don’t like Stuff for its perceived wokeness and asking people who don’t necessarily trust you for even their email address is an intimacy too far.
I suspect there will be less people reading their news as many will refuse to give Stuff even an email address.
This gated community paywall will only add to a deterioration in the NZ media landscape and lower the availability of journalism.
The most recent leaked Talbot Poll was put behind this gated community paywall and had no effect whatsoever on challenging perspectives generated by Roy Morgan + TU Polls.
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Stuff is light-weight trivial infortainment. I check the headlines and then go elsewhere to read the facts. Thankfully their cartoonists are now hidden behind a wall.
Why would I pay for stuff. When I can read all the same stories on RNZ.
Please note computer screen designers – white lettering on pale coloured backing is hard to read, even if you make the letters bigger – black on light, white, yellow, on dark. Orange may be in fashion but it isn’t easily readable.
If you use a decent browser on mobile, like Brave, you shouldn’t see these (or many other) ads.
Yes I get fucked off with those popups as well .Christ there is 20 bloody adds on each page surely they are making enough money from those .And what happened to all the opinion writers they once had ? In general their standards of real reporting has gone down the shit shute with next to no investigating at depth any thing this government has or is doing .Where is the uproar about the way they are treating teachers and not funding new or upgrading existing schools .There is none because the teachers and the media are closet right wing arse holes and when the government changes again and teachers take to the streets demanding better pay and conditions I hope the government sools the dogs onto them fires the whole bloody lot of them .Currently they are justt bending over and taking it where the sun dont shine and asking for more and faster .