Top 50 news websites in the US in July: BBC drops five places as paywall introduced; Most report traffic declines.
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How is msn even on this list? Their articles have been almost entirely clickbait trash since the mid 2000s.
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For real. People.com has "news" eh? Sure.
Those not seeking the truth will never notice when it's gone.
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How is msn even on this list? Their articles have been almost entirely clickbait trash since the mid 2000s.
They repost news from other sites, much like yahoo. They’re really just a news aggregator/feed — no original reporting.
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I'll say it again. Stop tracking me and I'll look at your ads. I look at physical mailers, like I literally look through them, more than I look at Internet ads.
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I read an article that suggests classified ads used to support newspapers and hard journalism, and the Internet and sites like Craigslist took away that revenue to pay reporters.
Yep that's pretty much how it went. Also print ads have lost against digital ads, which pay way less money to publishers and keep paying less each year
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New York Crimes number one!
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I was confused there for a second but apparently the BBC has introduced a paywall only for US users. Site is still completely free to read anywhere else, which is why I didnt even realize that there is a paywall.
Which of course means that US Americans could simply VPN their way around it..
This is a little surprising to me because I read it on a daily basis and haven't seen sign of the paywall yet. I don't know if Ublock Origin is simply squashing that as well, or I'm somehow lucky.
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I was confused there for a second but apparently the BBC has introduced a paywall only for US users. Site is still completely free to read anywhere else, which is why I didnt even realize that there is a paywall.
Which of course means that US Americans could simply VPN their way around it..
No paywall for me in America. I read the BBC all the time.
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I dropped NYT a while back and switched to APNews. Ive been pretty happy with them. I see that they are dropping readership too. Any reason why?
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I was confused there for a second but apparently the BBC has introduced a paywall only for US users. Site is still completely free to read anywhere else, which is why I didnt even realize that there is a paywall.
Which of course means that US Americans could simply VPN their way around it..
This screenshot is from July 2025 when I got hit with a paywall and was served with a ton of cookies, so I set my VPN to UK, lol.
EDIT: This was around the same time as POTUS hit UK with tariffs.
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I'll say it again. Stop tracking me and I'll look at your ads. I look at physical mailers, like I literally look through them, more than I look at Internet ads.
- No tracking. Context based ads instead of user profiles.
- You are responsible for the content on your pages. If you farm out to an ad network and expose users to malicious scripts, that’s on you.
- No pop-ups/overs, animated anything. If it’s taking over control of my screen, I’m not going to tolerate it.
