[LyalinDotCom]

I wish we wouldn't allow upvoting here of articles behind a paywall, this just wastes everyone's time. And yes someone might post a link to get around the paywall but this is hurting our news industry so I cant support this as a workaround.

[zeroday28]

I wouldn't recommend doing this nor saying I do this, but just FYI; The entire article loads way before the paywall.

This means two things:

1) If you disable JavaScript, the paywall goes away.

2) If you can quickly ctrl + a, ctrl + c the entire article you can read it on your IDE.

We need to tell economist.com developers to patch this.

[names_are_hard]

Give the devs some credit - maybe they know about this and are not closing the loophole because they want it to stay open? The majority of readers won't take advantage of it and those who will likely wouldn't have paid anyway.

[unobatbayar]

Gave them a call today. Who knew they had toll free international call lines. Quite impressive.

https://myaccount.economist.com/s/contact-us

[disgruntledphd2]

Newspapers are businesses.

Reporting costs money. Free news is generally paid for by the funder. Given the above, how is paywalled content hurting the news industry?

[nottorp]

It's not hurting the news industry... maybe. It's polluting the HN newsfeed... maybe.

I for one won't subscribe to paywalled sites i only occasionally get links to on HN or other news aggregators just because they're linked here.

Funny enough, I am subscribed to a site that gets linked on here semi regularly. Not paywalled, ads or pay for no ads/tracking. But I've been reading it longer than I've read HN.