I have never been allowed even inside a Costco without having my card scanned. As in, they scan them on the door. Sometimes there's a short queue to enter, and it's always been this way as long as I've been a member. Perhaps it's different elsewhere in the world?
Also, the law as written applies "if there is a significant bargaining power imbalance between its operator and news businesses … [such as] the intermediary occupies a prominent market position" (6: Application). I mean, let's be realistic, when you think "prominent search engine", how many search engines come to mind?
Lunch out today, as is my Friday tradition. Then I'm gonna be staying off Lemmy over the weekend to let the initial inrush of new users wash over us. Mad kudos to people who're gonna be here to help guide the masses on day one. :)
I'm probably gonna be taking a weekend off just to let the initial wave wash over us. Best wishes to Kaity, I'll see you fine folks on the other side. :)
TL;DR: The sunk cost fallacy. It's the tendency for people to carry on doing something even when abandoning it would be better for us. Because we have invested our time, energy, or other resources, we feel "it would have all been for nothing" if we quit now.
I tried it on two sites - New York Times and Financial Times. NYT gives the error message "12ft has been disabled for this site" and FT doesn't remove the paywall. Nice idea, shame about the execution. :)
If we're doing this, we also need ana/kata votes.