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The google trick no longer works for paywall bypass. Its not just me: http://digiday.com/publishers/wall-street-journal-paywall-google/ http://digiday.com/publ

• joshschreuder 11y ago
  It worked for me clicking through the 'web' link on HN (which does the Google search) then clicking the top result.
  • ekianjo 11y ago
    nice! it works indeed.
• sillysaurus3 11y ago
  It worked for me. I clicked on web then clicked on the top link. Here's the content of the article: http://pastebin.com/n0gRHa60 http://pastebin.com/n0gRHa60
  • EC1 11y ago
    How is this different than piracy?
    • jsmeaton 11y ago
      Entering into a pastebin is.. questionable. But I strongly dislike paywalls that disappear for search traffic. It's really really shady.
    • stock_toaster 11y ago
      No ships?
    • vonklaus 11y ago
      Well a pirate is(usually) a private person or ship authorized by a government by letters of marque to attack foreign vessels during wartime, and here we are just reading content we had no intention of paying for which is bundled in to a larger service we have no intention of paying for. You are not incorrect if you are indicating it is likely unethical however.
      • pm 11y ago
        I thought that was a privateer.
        • ekianjo 11y ago
          Well privateers and pirates are pretty much the same thing in practice, the only difference being that pirates operate on their own, while privateers are blessed by a particular State. But they both follow the same course of action.
      • dfc 11y ago
        That is "usually" never the definition of a pirate, you are describing privateers. Piracy is not limited to times of war nor is it dependent on a sovereign nation.
        • vonklaus 11y ago
          Wow, this clears up a lot. Logistically, it wouldn't have made sense that the parent was implying most of the thread had gone to Buckingham Palace to receive wartime repreive in order to simply read this article. I was super confused. Thanks for putting this into context for me and in context this makes more sense. I guess I just had the wrong definition of pirate.
      • EC1 11y ago
        Bad attempt at humor. Very low hanging.
• yohoho22 11y ago
  It should if you clear your wsj.com cookies.
  • mrb 11y ago
    It doesn't work, even after clearing cookies, even in incognito mode: - Launch new Chrome incognito session - Open HN story page, click 'web' link - Click first Google result: http://www.wsj.com/articles/voter-records-for-2-million-iowans-exposed-on-gop-site-1454602565 http://www.wsj.com/articles/voter-records-for-2-million-iowa... - I get a partial WSJ page obscured with "To Read the Full Story, Subscribe or Sign In" I think WSJ is getting smart. Maybe they temp-block IP addresses that try to access a news article (with or without a Google referer) if this IP just tried to access it without a referer in the last X minutes. Edit: I didn't change anything and now it works. (Standard Chrome install on Linux, latest version, no third-party plugins installed, only extensions installed are Authy and Google Docs.) Go figure what WSJ is doing...
    • msravi 11y ago
      Make sure that your referer header is enabled. If you're using uMatrix and have referer spoof turned on, add this to your rules to disable it for wsj: referrer-spoof: wsj.com false
• deleted 11y ago
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• xrjn 11y ago
  A number of sites' paywalls can be bypassed by modifying your referrer, with an extension like Referer Control [0] for example. If we take WSJ, I entered their root URL as a site filter, and set a custom referrer (in this case 'https://www.google.com' https://www.google.com'). This works for many news sites [1], but LinkedIn for example seems to ignore this. [0] Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/referer-control/hnkcfpcejkafcihlgbojoidoihckciin?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/referer-control/hn... [0] Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/referrer-control/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/referrer-cont... [1] http://i.imgur.com/SsnpwrL.png http://i.imgur.com/SsnpwrL.png
  • dfc 11y ago
    You really murdered any sense of normalcy in your de novo system for footnoting.