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Paywall Irony

Phone screenshot of wired.com at 09:35. Headline: "How the Web Became Unreadable", mostly hidden behind a popup. Popup: "We Care About Your Privacy", a data and cookies consent notice, "List of Partners (vendors)", button "I Accept", link "Show Purposes". Below: "SUBSCRIBE", "Already a subscriber? Sign-In". Screenshot of a website called The Soapbox with a purple header. The headline reads "Liberals Are Losing the Journalism Wars". The subhead reads "As major media outlets erect paywalls, conservative publishers are flooding the country with free, right-wing propaganda paid for by Republicans." A yellow pop-up covers the page with three dots, two filled and one empty, and a close X. It reads "This is the last of your…