Jim J.

What a scam this is. Any website that uses this should be avoided. Just to read the rest of a lifted article the website you are visiting never got permission to fully print, the website you are visiting decided to pay Notdot nothing and allows Nordot to make its users give up their privacy and be bombarded with ads to be allowed to read the rest of partial lifted articles.

Their entire business plan appears to be based on forcing internet users to turn off all ad-block software to see websites. Even if I look up the partial article on a search engine and go directly, there are much less trackers and ads than through a Notdot link.

A few months ago Raw story started posting partial articles lifted from other websites. I contacted them as to why they were posting click-bait partial articles they never got permission to actually print. "Roxanne" responded:
"That is a snippet of a wire story we have permission to reprint, through a service called Nordot. The reason why you see that "Read more" link at the end of the article is because the original publisher of the article gets paid when you click on the link. "

I did not see the 'read more' link until I turned off ad-block. To read the rest of just one article 'Nordot' forces users to turn off ALL AD block software and also has 33 trackers ON TOP OF the website you are referred to. A user must give up their right to privacy AND allow all invasive pop-up and pop-over ads from the website that has the original story (usually smaller unknown often shady sources I would never allow to put trackers on my computer).

Raw story takes news, turns the title into click-bait, then re-posts partial article with very invasive to use link SO THEY DO NOT HAVE TO PAY A CENT FOR THE STORIES THEY LIFT. Notdot says partial articles with the shady link is free to other websites. Nordot has a full article option but Raw Story apparently thinks it is better to force users to give up their privacy to whatever website had an article a RS writer/re-poster twisted into click-bait.