&gt;The alternative would be far worse (demanding payment without a preview of what you&#x27;re paying for).<p>&quot;dishonest&quot; may be too strong, perhaps just misleading - paywalled articles are often designed to appear as free articles. With a proper preview the reader would know as soon as they arrive that they will be expected to pay to read. I understand why sites prefer to hook you with partial content first, but that practice can appear deceptive.<p>&gt;The problem with posting paywalled content isn&#x27;t posting paywalled content. It&#x27;s the entitled people who can&#x27;t even be bothered to use well-known workarounds and instead completely derail discussions on political grounds.<p>I agree with you there - no one can post content from Wired anymore without someone starting a thread about the paywall. If you&#x27;re not willing to read the article you should just not participate in the discussion about it.