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Behind a paywall. What's the point of posting it here?
by finid 10y ago
Behind a paywall. What's the point of posting it here?
- ddeck 10y agoClick on the "web" link at the top of this HN page and then go to the article from Google. WSJ isn't pay walled if Google is the referrer.
- woliveirajr 10y agoI get a "subscribe or sign in"
- ephextom 10y agoTry a clean browser instance?
- woliveirajr 10y agoYep. Anywhere. Perhaps it's paywalled outside USA?
- just_observing 10y agoAcross the Atlantic here and it opens directly in a new tab. That's with uMatrix blocking several scripts though.
- sbierwagen 10y agoThat used to work, but I just tried it and it didn't work for me.
- nsns 10y agoDoesn't work anymore. At least not outside the US.
- matt_fleming 10y agoI'm a new user and I read the FAQ. They like "original sources." Many of the top-quality sources are pay walled. I happen to pay for the WSJ because I like reading first-hand quality reporting. If there's a discussion link that's pay walled, you can choose not to participate, or simple read the comments and try to pick up something about it. You could also go to your library and see if they have access to the Wall Street Journal. Or google for the article and see if it was picked up elsewhere.
- DanBC 10y agoI don't know if the WSJ still counts as having a paywall with a workaround. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989 > Publications like NYT, WSJ, the Economist, and the New Yorker have paywalls that leave ways for readers to work around them. Such stories are OK to post to Hacker News. Yes, the workarounds are a nuisance, but the loss of many substantive articles would be worse. In the future, when someone doesn't understand this, please politely direct them to this thread or to HN's FAQ [1], which now makes this explicit. > Complaints about paywalls are off-topic here.