"You've reached your free article limit."

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Flex68
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Logged-in to my account (been a member since 2016) and read a couple of articles, made a couple of comments.
Tried to access another article, and received a pop-up window stating that, "You've reached your free article limit."
Logged-out and back in, and immediately received the same pop-up window/message.
Logged-out again, cleared my History and cache, restarted my computer, clicked on the email to be able to review the S.A. article that I was interested in, and logged back into my account with S.A.
Immediately received the same BS pop-up message again.
Niiiiice!

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SA Admin Shubham Shresth
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Hi there,

Thanks for reaching out!

In order to continue providing our users with outstanding financial analysis and news, we changed our Paywall policy in January 2021.

You can read more about this change here: https://seekingalpha.com/article/4396836-important-update-for-seeking-alpha-users

The good news is that you can still access any article on any stock, even without a paid subscription, though there is a monthly limit to how much you can read.

We do notify the member of when they are close to reaching their limit and when they have reached their limit with the following banners:

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If you want to keep reading past the limit, you can just go ahead and start your free two-week trial of Seeking Alpha Premium - no commitment required.

Premium, apart from providing you unlimited access to analysis articles also provides you with many other powerful tools that can help you with your investing. You can get an overview of the service here.

Thank you and please feel free to reach out if you need any more help!


Regards,
Shubham Shresth
Data QA Analyst, Seeking Alpha

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FutureInvesting

Was also hit with the paywall (didn't know there was one). Was there a change in policy? What is the monthly article limit?

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anonymous

i gave up and went to wsj and Barrons. It's crazy that they don't even allow you to read the news articles. Don't waste your time 

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chadwick404
Quote from DadeLine

...they are going to lose content (comments) ...they are on the slippery slope

Precisely...Its hard to retract away from the model they fostered at this point.  Better find another model.

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Yuppp

Got notice morning that I have to pay for Seeking Alpha now. Enjoyed the site but not on board with this sudden premium user paywall ambush. It's a Bear market and I'm not trading much anyway - I'm out.

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Trade-stocks-Drink-IPAs

Viewing comments is also restricted by a paywall. At this point Seeking Alpha is just asking to lose all of its subscribers 

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BigAK

Horrible guys.  You will lose a lot of folks.  There are other ways to monetize the traffic.  Good luck.

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Mr. Vegan

Crazy! In my eyes, the quality of articles (and comments) has deteriorated significantly in the last year. Previously, most articles added value. Now, there are loads of articles just restating what has been told many, many times. Or of people calling themselves fancy names like "XYZ investment research" who just write opinions without stating any rationale behind it. And authors who keep reproducing wrong facts (like "buy Alibaba H shares, there's no VIE risk") and obviously don't understand the difference between delisting-, ADR- and VIE-risks.) Or contributors who just state "price support levels" (The only information is: "stock price may go down to x or up to y. And then it may go up - or down." - Wow, thanks for that brilliant insight!) To find loads of examples of these types of articles, just look at the articles on META and Alibaba.

Increasingly often, I think "thanks for wasting my time" after reading an article.

I had asked myself: why? Today, when I got hit by the paywall and found out, that it's officially there since January 2021 I have a theory: maybe the new rule has attracted click baiters and people who just mass produce low-value articles that can be written quickly - in order to get a share of the fees?

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I've been a Seeking Alpha user for almost ten years. I really liked Seeking Alpha. But now the quality has deteriorated significantly and they want an annual fee. 

There's no way I'm paying for a service that's been getting worse.

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Seeking more alpha than you
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Horrible guys.  You will lose a lot of folks.  There are other ways to monetize the traffic.  Good luck.

They will only lose those that are not paying.  Since they only want those who pay, it’s no big loss at all if someone who isn’t paying leaves.

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Seeking more alpha than you
Quote from Trade-stocks-Drink-IPAs

Viewing comments is also restricted by a paywall. At this point Seeking Alpha is just asking to lose all of its subscribers 

They will only lose the ones that don’t want to pay.  I don’t see that as a big loss at all.

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Seeking more alpha than you
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i gave up and went to wsj and Barrons. It's crazy that they don't even allow you to read the news articles. Don't waste your time 

I don’t think it’s a crazy for a company to want to be paid for their work.  Would you work anywhere for free?