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What if people kept posting links to a paid service? (even if it was supposedly the best thing ever)
by frozenport 11y ago
What if people kept posting links to a paid service? (even if it was supposedly the best thing ever)
- dogma1138 11y agoSome people might be subscribed to it, some people might be convinced by the synopsis to pay. Many of the "science" threads on HN lead to paywalled sites where only an abstract or summary is available without login but that's sadly very common these days as it's hard to get access to published papers without having a university login. That said as far as WSJ goes you can't publish the paywall bypass link, Google removed the "Google Sent Me" chrome extensions for a reason as it was a violation in their opinion. The Google referral is selective choice by the site owner, it varies from country to country, site to site, and article to article.