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by con 2236 days ago
If you are on an iOS/iPad OS device, you can use my Shortcut to circumvent the paywall:

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/11a5ce44a9dc44e6b525b22ca62...

It clears the cookies of the current page, takes the URL and uses Google to redirect you back to that URL, causing the page to assume that you clicked on a search result and are a first time visitor.

2 comments

This looks very nice. But I’m concerned that I’d be left with Google cookies after this is run.
I've made another one that uses Facebook. But I can't tell which is worse! ;-)
Does this work for all sites? Or only WSJ?
All sites that allow a number of free articles when coming from Google (e.g. NYTimes, WSJ)
Ok thank you!