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No paywall: http://www.cnbc.com/2016/05/09/lending-club-shares-tumble-after-ceo-resigns.html http://www.cnbc.com/2016/05/09/lending-club-shares-tumble-af...

by spking 11y ago

teh_klev 11y ago
No paywall...no annoying auto-play video: http://archive.is/vh3yl http://archive.is/vh3yl
- blairanderson 11y ago
  this should be a top level comment
cpdean 11y ago
thanks!
zymhan 11y ago
Also this one I submitted first... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11659278 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11659278 http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/10/business/dealbook/lending-club-leading-online-lender-says-its-chief-resigns.html http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/10/business/dealbook/lending-...
psychometry 11y ago
Does everyone on HN pay for the WSJ or something? I don't understand why anyone upvotes these submissions.
- gumby 11y ago
  You can get around the paywall by copying the headline and then doing a google search of site:wsj.com <the headline you just pasted> WSJ wants to have a paywall but doesn't want to lose inbound google news traffic so they allow incoming traffic from google (probably they have the theory that you'll come for one article, see ads for other articles you'd like to read, and sign up. Given how web-clueless most people are it's not a terrible theory). I think they also feel that being left out of "the conversation" in favor of AP or Buzzfeed is worse than losing a bit of revenue. Probably a bit of referrer-fu would work too but I rarely find the wsj worth reading so couldn't be bothered to see what they check for.
  - ultramancool 11y ago
    There is a solution: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/paywall-pass/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/paywall-pass/ Basically just messes with the referer on an automatic basis for a few websites.
- gefh 11y ago
  They even had the cheek to complain I was using an ad blocker. Which I'm not - I just don't autoplay flash.
- jraby3 11y ago
  You can generally just type the headline of a wsj article in Google and read the whole article.
- brobinson 11y ago
  Click the "web" link under the title and then click the first Google result to bypass the paywall.
  - TwoFactor 11y ago
    Wow, been on HN for years and never realized that haha. Thanks!

No paywall: http://www.cnbc.com/2016/05/09/lending-club-shares-tumble-after-ceo-resigns.html http://www.cnbc.com/2016/05/09/lending-club-shares-tumble-af...

by spking 11y ago

No paywall: http://www.cnbc.com/2016/05/09/lending-club-shares-tumble-after-ceo-resigns.html http://www.cnbc.com/2016/05/09/lending-club-shares-tumble-af...

teh_klev 11y ago

No paywall...no annoying auto-play video: http://archive.is/vh3yl http://archive.is/vh3yl

blairanderson 11y ago
this should be a top level comment

cpdean 11y ago

thanks!

zymhan 11y ago

Also this one I submitted first... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11659278 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11659278 http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/10/business/dealbook/lending-club-leading-online-lender-says-its-chief-resigns.html http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/10/business/dealbook/lending-...

psychometry 11y ago

Does everyone on HN pay for the WSJ or something? I don't understand why anyone upvotes these submissions.

gumby 11y ago
You can get around the paywall by copying the headline and then doing a google search of site:wsj.com <the headline you just pasted> WSJ wants to have a paywall but doesn't want to lose inbound google news traffic so they allow incoming traffic from google (probably they have the theory that you'll come for one article, see ads for other articles you'd like to read, and sign up. Given how web-clueless most people are it's not a terrible theory). I think they also feel that being left out of "the conversation" in favor of AP or Buzzfeed is worse than losing a bit of revenue. Probably a bit of referrer-fu would work too but I rarely find the wsj worth reading so couldn't be bothered to see what they check for.
- ultramancool 11y ago
  There is a solution: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/paywall-pass/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/paywall-pass/ Basically just messes with the referer on an automatic basis for a few websites.
gefh 11y ago
They even had the cheek to complain I was using an ad blocker. Which I'm not - I just don't autoplay flash.
jraby3 11y ago
You can generally just type the headline of a wsj article in Google and read the whole article.
brobinson 11y ago
Click the "web" link under the title and then click the first Google result to bypass the paywall.
- TwoFactor 11y ago
  Wow, been on HN for years and never realized that haha. Thanks!