Computer Help and Support

If somebody doesn't want me to look at their stuff without paying then I'll pay or I won't look at their stuff.

This is true for software too, which is why I'm a Linux user.

That said, a quick search will sometimes find an article that's paywalled in one place posted elsewhere on a legal site where it is not paywalled. Occasionally this will be the author's own web site and you might find a way to support that author's writing directly without the middlemen.

I do use an ad blocker, uBlock origin to protect me from advertising that moves or makes noise, which I have zero tolerance for.

If I regularly visit a site I'll turn the ad blocking off when there is no option to subscribe. Most of the sites I visit are technical and the advertising doesn't tend to be obnoxious.

My wife and I subscribe to several newspapers. We don't have satellite or cable television so that's where we get most of our news.