I Experimented With Paywalls. Here's What I Discovered

As it turns out, you usually do have to ask for money.

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Ah, paywalls. They are the bane of modern journalism, aren’t they? I can’t name how many times I wanted to read something from The New York Times or The New Yorker, only to have my butt stopped by the paywall.

And let’s face it, the workarounds don’t always work. So you’re stuck with these sites that tend to demand mon…