I just sent this feedback to #newspapers.com:
I've been a newspapers.com and #ancestry.com subscriber for years. I'm an armchair, amateur #historian. I've created thousands of #newspaper #clippings. I have shared many of them, via my #blog and a few different #wikis. I do research to share information. It brings me happiness to mine old newspapers for lost knowledge, and to share it.
So your change to limit visitors to five free articles, then require registration and payment is very disheartening. It removes the very reason I do this. Putting up a paywall for viewing previously public clippings is right out of Cory Doctorow's crapification.
I urge you to reconsider your decision. I know you need to produce ROI, but this is a giant body of human knowledge you're taking off the internet.
I had to censor myself to get the feedback to go through. I originally referenced #enshittification , and linked to the #wikipedia article for it, but it wouldn't go through.
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