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The Guardian now blocks privacy settings behind a paywall. And you still see adverts if you pay.
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The normal paid one (~£15 a month or £150 a year) is still fully ad-free, and can be (officially) shared with "a few friends and family". This looks like a new "pay less but have adverts" subscription option, which is obviously a bit shitty and questionable.
It's a bit pricey, but it's one of the few British news sources without a right wing bias, and we need it to still exist.
It doesn't excuse the privacy paywall though.
I'm American and I pay for an annual Guardian membership.
They’re still rife with TERFs, they sacked Carole Cadwalladr, and now they’re pivoting to AI, so I wouldn’t give them a penny.
All very fair points. The recent Observer sell-out raised a few alarms for me, though I'm still currently a subscriber, though looking at what my other options are.