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.

[jc31415]

Flag "Recommended by Pocket" articles that require a subscription

So tired of clicking articles that look interesting, only to be greeted with a massive content-blocking "subscribe now to continue reading" article.  You know, chrome is starting to look pretty good.

[Jon]

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

[dgm]

Please provide an option to exclude content that's behind a paywall. Or at the very least, have a banner of some sort informing you that pay-walled content lies ahead.

Overall, the idea of a blocklist/allowlist sounds great. Where you can add 'categories' that you never want to see, as well as specific sites. And if a site is part of a blocked category, but you want to see it, the allow list should assist with that.

[jmbarbera]

At the very least, identify those article links that have paywalls perhaps with a little $ in the corner of the box. That way we can choose whether or not to go there and pay or log in and not waste our time backing out.

[AxeMan808]

First off, I quite like the Pocket feature. There have been many interesting articles I would not have otherwise stumbled upon.

My problem is when I find an interesting article and click, then cannot read it because the article is paywalled.

I'm not blaming you for the paywalling; however, it is frustrating to discover I've wasted my time clicking and loading that page (and giving them a free pageview I assume).

I know back in the day, Washington Post used to Gmail 5 or so headline stories which were accessible, bypassing/tunneling-through their paywall using *those* links. Perhaps something like that is possible? Or verify that the article is not paywalled before placing in Pocket?

[Jon]

Similar feedback / idea here: Provide a setting for pocket that blocks all articles from any site that uses paywalls 

[fezzik]

From time to time I find all suggested articles to be behind paywalls. I literally can't read any of them without microtransactions to several subscription sites which I have no interest in subscribing to.

Please, fix this by allowing the user to either block sites or disable paywalled sites.

[Occams_Chainsaw]

Yeah that drives me crazy. Seems like every other article I want to read from the New Tab screen is paywalled. Lots of stories from The Atlantic pop up there, for instance. I think Vanity Fair is another one of those. Just ran into it again on a story from GQ.

It would be really nice if we had an option to weed out the paywalled sites.

There are a lot of people out there who agree with me that News should never be paywalled. Information should be free, especially information that can improve people's lives, or warn them about dangers. Since there's no way we're ever going to get paywalling to go away, we should at least have the option to not be tempted and then let down because everything is a subscription now.

[Occams_Chainsaw]

Full agreement. It's so frustrating to see an article that I want to read, only to get there and find it paywalled. It's like literary blue-balls. I would have been happier to never have seen the article at all.

[Dasny]

How about you DON'T recommend stories that REQUIRE a subscription to read? Hmmm? Or provide me a way to turn it off? I know you need to generate revenue and maybe you get a kick back if I subscribe to something I see on your recommended stories, but come on! Seems every third story I select is something I need to sub to. Gotten so bad I know which "providers" not to bother with reading.

[editorsean]

Even if Mozzila needs to include paywalled content as a source of funding, at least add a "Block News Source" option.  This would at least provide a workaround and also let me block news sources that I have no interest in reading any articles from. 

Another suggestion would be to come up with some sort of Pay per View method for paywalled news sources, e.g. where $10 buys 100 credits to read 100 paywalled articles, especially as no one is going to pay monthly subscriptions across multiple news sources just to read one-off articles, never mind the cancellation / auto-renew hassle after reading the article! 

I finally had enough of running into paywalled featured articles that I have now set my homepage to a specific news source and disabled this frustrating Recommended stories feature.  

[dontgiveadamn]

Really tired of reporting articles that require a subscription only to have another from the same website pop up. Thinking about deleting Firefox. No one wants spam from these websites filling our inbox. Do better. 

[StevenCee]

If we could block particular online sites, since all the stories showing up on the Start Page require paid subscriptions, it would free up the room for those we can actually click on and go read.

[dftf]

Yes, literally around half of all articles from "The Verge" are behind one, so it just wastes my time bothering to click on any of them.

Examples:

[CJC]

Agree completely. Please implement.