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by rwdim 1994 days ago
seriously people, quit posting paywalled content.
8 comments
hombre_fatal 1994 days ago
No. I don't only want to read ad-driven content. Time to learn how to bypass paywalls in 2020.
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skeeter2020 1994 days ago
so... you don't want to pay for content or get ads. Enjoy your cake.
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fingerlocks 1994 days ago
You can bypass a paywall by paying.

That’s how I interpreted the post.

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NoOneNew 1994 days ago
To be fair, doesn't bypassing paywalls kind of the defeat the purpose for these sites to be able to provide content without ads? Thus, ad driven content is the only way for them to keep the lights on.
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EdJiang 1994 days ago
The WashPo paywall is the worst -- it rewrites your address bar so you can't even bookmark the URL for later or copy/paste it to share. Really frustrating on mobile when you can be in an app that's not logged into WashPo. Why would the product team make that decision?
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fencepost 1994 days ago
Frequently bypassing is just searching for the title to pick it up at another news site that it's syndicated to.
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blendergeek 1994 days ago
Paywall content is explicitly ok on Hacker News. From the FAQ [0]:

> Are paywalls ok?

> It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds.

> In comments, it's ok to ask how to read an article and to help other users do so. But please don't post complaints about paywalls. Those are off topic. More here. [1]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989

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kergonath 1994 days ago
That’s fine. The discussions here are most of the time more interesting than the articles anyway.

And there are ways around most paywalls if one article is particularly interesting.

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_y5hn 1994 days ago
No, we already got /. for that.
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kergonath 1994 days ago
Not really comparable. Slashdot’s fine for flame wars but much less interesting than HN. Narrower in scope as well.
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Exmoor 1994 days ago
It would've taken about the same amount of time to find and link a non-paywalled article, and been much more useful. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/12/31/wiscon...
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driverdan 1994 days ago
https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome
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newdude116 1994 days ago
Dunno. My "bypass paywalls clean" Browser-add on does wonders.
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pomian 1994 days ago
Can read it fine within hn app(Android - manual maly)
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fxtentacle 1994 days ago
While I agree, there would be very little left otherwise.
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CC38 1994 days ago
Baloney! There is enough non-gated content on the internet to keep any one of us busy until the day we die.
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