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by verandaguy 85 days ago
You know, it's funny. A while back people would've been building cURL alternatives/wrappers/collecting client header stacks designed to sidestep paywalls on web content (sidestep, at best).

With purl, the web gets just a little less punk. Which is nothing new, unfortunately. I miss the times when people would put in stupid amounts of effort to stick to their principles in hobby tech.