TechEcho

Last years book "Never Lost Again" is a good account of the Keyhole/Google Earth/Google Maps story. (<a href="https://www.amazon.com/-/dp/0062673041/" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazon.com/-/dp/0062673041/</a>)

TechCrunch has never been a good source of tech news - even from its Michael Arrington's days. But now it's even worse.

First time coming across techcrunch's "extra crunch" paywall - It's a shame they give you half the article before mentioning it.

Interesting side-note for anyone seeing a paywall, if you set Safari to only ever use reader mode on techcrunch URLs it appears to bypass that completely.

Got a few paragraphs in before finding out it's behind a paywall that's only accessible from a few countries.

Paywall alert. The article does not mention till very late that it's paywalled.

What a horrible site, it tries to hijack the back button, full screen cookie warning and uBlock has over a dozen items blocked.

Techcrunch links should be banned imo..