I agree and used to flag them for that reason. Dang disagrees though and s&#x2F;he&#x27;s the moderator, so I stopped: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9717601" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9717601</a><p>The recent trend in paywalling is a negative one but it&#x27;s not easy for any one aggregator (who isn&#x27;t google) to punish the behavior. Consequently, a lot of a great content is paywalled.