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Wanna give a non-paywalled synopsis for those of us without a WSJ subscription? Edit: Mass-reply: Thanks all! Learn something new every day. For those lookin
by pragone 11y ago
Wanna give a non-paywalled synopsis for those of us without a WSJ subscription?
Edit: Mass-reply: Thanks all! Learn something new every day.
For those looking for the same thing, go here, click first link. Should bypass the paywall:
https://www.google.com/search?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsj.com%2Farticles%2Fapple-speeds-up-electric-car-work-1442857105 https://www.google.com/search?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsj.com%2Fa...
- melling 11y agoYou can read it: https://h4labs.wordpress.com/2015/09/14/hacker-news-faq-1-how-do-i-read-an-article-behind-a-paywall/ https://h4labs.wordpress.com/2015/09/14/hacker-news-faq-1-ho...
- uptown 11y agohttps://www.google.com/search?q=Apple+Speeds+Up+Electric-Car+Work https://www.google.com/search?q=Apple+Speeds+Up+Electric-Car...
- doughj3 11y agoGoogle the URL and access it from search results and the paywall disappears: https://www.google.com/search?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsj.com%2Farticles%2Fapple-speeds-up-electric-car-work-1442857105 https://www.google.com/search?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsj.com%2Fa...
- nimbuscoder 11y agoFor some reason the article itself fails to load (only WSJ page w/ comments). FYI for anyone running into issues: Apple News works for me.
- deleted 11y ago[deleted]
- trca 11y agoPro-tip: You can generally take any paywall blocked article, copy the URL into the Google search bar and click the first-result to get a non-paywall blocked version. Works for NYTimes, WSJ and a few others I can't remember.
- marcosscriven 11y agoBookmarklet? javascript:window.location="https://www.google.com/search?q="+window.location https://www.google.com/search?q="+window.location
- zodiakzz 11y agoOr better yet:- javascript:window.location="https://www.google.com/url?q="+window.location https://www.google.com/url?q="+window.location
- randcraw 11y agoLovely idea, if only it worked for WSJ... Not in Firefox or Chrome on my Macs. Nor in private/incognito mode.
- deleted 11y ago[deleted]
- ShakataGaNai 11y agotldr: Shipping something by 2019, hopefully. Also per the other comments saying "dump the link into google". You can fake it with something like https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/referer-control/hnkcfpcejkafcihlgbojoidoihckciin?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/referer-control/hn...
- kaffeemitsahne 11y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989
- deegles 11y agoSide question... when we use the Google search workaround, is Google paying WSJ for the view?
- lftl 11y agoNot as far as I know. It's basically a compromise after sites began implementing paywalls, but then complaining when Google would stop listing the paywalled content. As long as a user coming from Google got to read the full text of the destination page for free, Google agreed to continue listing the site.