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I bypassed the paywall by googling the url of the article, because they whitelist google as a referer.
by Buge 11y ago
I bypassed the paywall by googling the url of the article, because they whitelist google as a referer.
- kuschku 11y agoOnly for US IPs. If you are from Germany, even with a Google referer you don’t get the article.
- Aldo_MX 11y agoI could read the article from Mexico: https://www.google.com.mx/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CB0QqQIwAGoVChMIma6LiN_KxwIVSJQeCh22iAEH&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsj.com%2Farticles%2Fhacker-killed-by-drone-was-secret-weapon-1440718560&ei=BMnfVZmcBsioeraRhjg&usg=AFQjCNG3WNw3DvdOkYfGmNQa02pgnjTGfw https://www.google.com.mx/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=we...
- kuschku 11y agoWell, from Germany it seems to not work at all. I archived it through archive.is using your link (which uses X-Forwarded-For to allow wsj to see my IP), and the page looks like this: https://archive.is/HsIiC https://archive.is/HsIiC
- dogma1138 11y agoWorks from the UK, if you are unlucky go to https://www.4proxy.us/ https://www.4proxy.us/ type in https://www.google.co.uk/search?num=100&newwindow=1&site=&source=hp&q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsj.com%2Farticles%2Fhacker-killed-by-drone-was-secret-weapon-1440718560 https://www.google.co.uk/search?num=100&newwindow=1&site=&so... And it will work ;)
- SeldomSoup 11y agoYou seem to be right (https://i.imgur.com/VBfbvOv.png https://i.imgur.com/VBfbvOv.png), but I thought sites accessed through HTTPS, like Google, are never sent as referers.
- marcosdumay 11y agoThey are sent as referers to other HTTPS sites. But not to plain text ones.