This is a little surprising to me because I read it on a daily basis and haven’t seen sign of the paywall yet. I don’t know if Ublock Origin is simply squashing that as well, or I’m somehow lucky.
Microw@piefed.zip 4 days ago
I was confused there for a second but apparently the BBC has introduced a paywall only for US users. Site is still completely free to read anywhere else, which is why I didnt even realize that there is a paywall.
Which of course means that US Americans could simply VPN their way around it..
Zonetrooper@lemmy.world 4 days ago
shalafi@lemmy.world 4 days ago
No paywall for me in America. I read the BBC all the time.
LemmyThinkAboutThat@lemmy.myserv.one 4 days ago
This screenshot is from July 2025 when I got hit with a paywall and was served with a ton of cookies, so I set my VPN to UK, lol.
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echodot@feddit.uk 2 days ago
The BBC has been run as a business now and it’s absolutely stupid. It was never meant to make a profit that was never really the point. It was supposed to be a public service and a projection of soft power, that seems to have gone out to the window now.
I suspect a lot of the work at the BBC don’t actually agree with this, but management don’t listen to anyone.