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by xrjn 3781 days ago
A number of sites' paywalls can be bypassed by modifying your referrer, with an extension like Referer Control [0] for example. If we take WSJ, I entered their root URL as a site filter, and set a custom referrer (in this case 'https://www.google.com'). This works for many news sites [1], but LinkedIn for example seems to ignore this.

[0] Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/referer-control/hn...

[0] Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/referrer-cont...

[1] http://i.imgur.com/SsnpwrL.png

1 comments

You really murdered any sense of normalcy in your de novo system for footnoting.