Google News Should Remove Paywall and forced adblock removers from feed

Google has the opposite goal. Since their primary income is ad revenue, they have absolutely zero incentive to improve the experience for ad blockers. As long as your goal is to deny both paying for and seeing ads for content, don't expect anyone to make your life easier, because you're leeching off everyone else.

Beyond me how people expect journalist to work for free, then complain about how hard it is to find good journalist.

Better idea would be for Google News to offer a unified subscription service, or simply license the content and have a unified interface.

I pay for NY Times and WSJ. If more people did that, we'd have less malicious "fake news."

That's not that easy to do. GoogleBot would have to look at the code and decide whether it contains ad blocking checks. There's not a universal method to check for this so it would require a lot of customization and testing. I'm sure they have better things to do with their time.

Besides, I seriously doubt whether Google would oppose checks for ad blocking technology. After-all they make 90% of their income from ads.

Not sure there is a good way to make this happen. They are an aggregator, and have 10 different sources you can click on for the same topic. The 'top' article for that topic regularly rotates through sources throughout the day. I assume to promote some sort of fairness, or maybe it has something to do with recency of the last update. Not sure how it works. But how do they prioritize a site over another because of a pay wall? What about all the other people who actually pay for a subscription to some news sites? Should those sites really be punished? Should those users not see the results from that site?

If you don't like a site, you can hit personalize and reduce those sites from showing up. If I hit one that is telling me I have to remove an ad blocker, thats what I would do.

The same with Hacker News.

I wouldn't expect Google to do this, they live on ad revenue. I'd like to see someone else do it though, with much stricter rules e.g. no javascript and no embedded media. And I'd like some idealistic people to write interesting content for it to get it off the ground until it becomes insanely popular and everyone starts writing things in that format so "[Cool Name] News" will pick it. And then the Internet becomes a good place to visit again. [end day dream]

Most paywalls get automatically disabled when clicking links from Google by referrer.

As for ad blockers, install this: https://reek.github.io/anti-adblock-killer/

Let's not forget that Ad networks are terrible for carrying malware.

It's not going to happen, but it should.

I usually block the anti-adblocker message. Works like a charm.

I don't use GN, but I agree with this from a UX side.