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    6 months ago

    It’s a gift link. You’ve got something unusual about your settings (eg: javascript disabled) if you’re hitting the paywall.

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        There’s chunk of the bottom of the screen encouraging you to do those things, but it doesn’t in any way keep you from reading the article if you don’t, and you can just click the ‘x’ to remove it from the screen entirely.

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          but it doesn’t in any way keep you from reading the article if you don’t, and you can just click the ‘x’ to remove it from the screen entirely.

          It did on my phone (otherwise I would have read it instead of posting a ‘Paywalled’ comment here), and I didn’t see any X to click on, though granted the screen was very busy with a lot of stuff going on.

          Anti Commercial-AI license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

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            On my phone, the ‘x’ is just above the ‘to’ in the words “A Post subscriber gave you free access to this article.”

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              I honestly didn’t see it until you pointed it out now.

              It’s so small and it’s so close to the sign-in button, that I took it as part of the sign-in stuff, and trying to click on the X the first time actually clicked on the sign-in stuff instead.

              I actually went looking for the X by scrolling down.

              Too bad they didn’t move it more to the right away from the sign-in link, and made it a bold font like they did the wording right below it, as it seems like such a small unbolded font that have the X be displayed as.

              I’m not going to change my original comment, and I still stand by it. If they obfuscate the way of closing the pop-ups by making the close button so small and insignificant compared to the other likewise texting around it, to me that still paywalling, as they’re trying to trick people into signing up for an account to read the article.

              Anti Commercial-AI license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

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                    6 months ago

                    It’s in the top right corner of the relevant dialog, which is pretty much where the ‘close this thing’ icon is on every other UI.