Provide a setting for Recommended Stories that blocks all articles from any site that uses paywalls

[rlritchey]

Also, provide a blacklist function so that users can manually have more sites blocked, and a whitelist function to manually unblock specified paywall sites. This provides more power to the user to determine what content is provided and what is not.

[StevenCee]

Yep, and even when I click on each story, with a "Dismiss", I guess it will only apply to that one story, which makes no sense! If I simply don't want to read a particular story, I would simply not click on it. Why there's no way to eliminate online sites, so they won't keep populating our home page, makes no sense. C'mon Mozilla programmers, please make this simple feature possible.

[kelimuttu]

For transparency, I've updated the original thread to update Pocket into Recommended Stories since Pocket has been shut down.

[mo5]

Please consider adding more customization for users to manually block certain websites that have paywalls that are unnecessarily obtrusive. Some of them allow you to read part of an article and then surprise you with a "pay to continue reading". This is frustrating and a waste of time. Engaging curious users and then forcing them to subscribe to a monthly or yearly payment plan isn't what I personally would consider a positive strategy. Maybe it works for some people, but negative psychology doesn't work for me. Which means it doesn't work for a portion of the population, either.

As someone who spends a significant amount of time at the start of their day reading through Firefox with my morning coffee; I sometimes end up closing half of them without being able to finish the interest. BBC and Rolling Stone comes to mind here, specifically. Reporting these articles or dismissing them doesn't really feel helpful. I understand that these websites have overhead, but there is a balance that needs to be competed with otherwise consumers aren't going to win access to free information.

[cr1]

I enjoy Firefox's recommended news articles, but I am increasingly frustrated by clicking interesting headlines only to discover that the content requires a paid subscription.

I am not objecting to publishers charging for their journalism. I am objecting to the absence of disclosure before I click. Many news websites already identify subscriber-only content with a lock icon or subscription label. Mozilla should provide similar identification on its New Tab page.

Ideally, I think Firefox should also offer an option to exclude subscription-required articles from recommendations entirely. Yet this could be cumbersome, and given that  Mozilla already identifies sponsored content, why can't Mozilla do the same for pay-walled articles.

I believe readers deserve the same transparency regarding paywalled content.  I know I prefer to making informed choices before clicking, rather than after encountering a paywall, or is this too much of a request?

[Jon]

(Note: similar ideas have been merged into this thread)