Best source for news without paywall?

[ftg]

@Spud

Or you could just delete their cookies and become a “new” guest.

I believe such advice is frowned upon here. (The owners are in the newspaper business.)

In addition, many sites use another storage mechanism in addition to cookies to track users.

[skdo23]

@ftg

I believe such advice is frowned upon here. (The owners are in the newspaper business.)

In addition, many sites use another storage mechanism in addition to cookies to track users.

Private browsing mode (or its equivalent) works for WaPo, NYT, and many others.

[SanVito]

@filmstar-en

I want a good source of news as well.

The BBC is all very well, but the rolling news seems dominated by reporting on the posturing of UK politicians about Brexit. It has been this way for a couple of years now and it is utterly tedious. Few hard facts and conclusions, too much opinion, and commentary on what seems an endless poker game between very uninspiring politicians.

Yes, well, that state of affairs isn’t confined to the BBC sadly - you’ll find that on any British news media at the moment and not because the journalists can’t form an opinion.

You can, of course, tailor your BBC news experience according to your personal tastes. Whether that will completely blank out Brexit, I can’t be sure. It does seem to get everywhere at the moment.

[septimus]

There are several easy ways to view N.Y. Times or Washington Post without restriction. I learned of the simplest way right here at SDMB.

Is it considered criminal or fraudulent to use such techniques?

[PastTense]

@Musicat

Just note…Google News does not exclude paywall URLS, and those typically show up first in the list for a specific topic.

Well lots of paywall sites give you X stories free per month (5 or 10…). When you use Google news you use lots of different newspapers–so you often fall within these limits–and if you don’t you just use an alternative source.

But like lots of other people here I use alternative techniques like private browsing and shutting off various nag and other scripts with uBlock Origin.

[Pabitel]

I rely on Reuters

[Quartz]

@SamuelA

The bbc is generally considered a good unbiased source,

Sorry, but the BBC is not unbiased. It is very pro-EU and many parts of it are anti-Tory.

There’s no such thing as an unbiased news feed. Even the decision about what to cover is affected by bias. (E.g. “Do we cover the famine in X or the massive export sales of Y?”) The best thing to do is read widely. Read news sites that are left-wing and news sites that are right-wing.

[Ashtura]

I use Yahoo. It tends to skew left but has stuff from most major news outlets including WaPo.

Bonus points is it is one of the few news aggregation services that still has anonymous comment sections for nearly all articles. I get a healthy dose of entertainment out of that.