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That's not my understanding of how the Mail Online works. Yes, it's free and pays for itself through advertising, but that's because it does extremely well - not sure of the latest figures but it is one of the most visited news sites in the English-speaking world.As I understand it. most of the print paper's content appears free online. Have a feeling that may not be true of sections like Money Mail.It's slightly complicated though because as I understand it the Mail Online has a different editor to either the Daily or Sunday paper and there's a lot of content on the website (mostly the celebrity stories) that doesn't appear in the print paper.The Mail Online also generates a lot of stories by lifting and rewriting stories from other publications (both other papers and e.g. specialist science magazines). I know all news websites do this to a greater or lesser extent, but the Mail Online seems to have a particularly bad reputation among journalists for stealing stuff and not giving credit.This article is a few years old now but does get quite deep into the commercial and editorial differences between the print papers and the Mail Online:https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/04/02/mail-supremacyAs to what other papers do: Times, Telegraph and FT all have a small number of free articles per week before you hit the paywall.Guardian is, I think, still free on the website (but you have to pay for the app) although I've lost track because I do have a subscription.

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