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I try to put this on all WSJ articles that make the front page. Here is a direct link to this story that will auto-kill the paywall: https://m.facebook.com/l.
by downandout 10y ago
I try to put this on all WSJ articles that make the front page. Here is a direct link to this story that will auto-kill the paywall:
https://m.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsj.com%2Farticles%2Fthe-high-speed-trading-behind-your-amazon-purchase-1490532110%3Fmod%3De2fb https://m.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsj.com%2Fa...
If you want a draggable bookmarklet that will bypass the paywall for all WSJ articles, go here:
http://salzeko.com/wsj/ http://salzeko.com/wsj/
It would be nice if HN would make a change to their link submission code so that it automatically changes WSJ URLs to use the Facebook redirect workaround, since they are the one major site that disabled the Google workaround.
But until then we have to do it this way.
- TheSpiceIsLife 10y agoOr pay.
- downandout 10y agoMost people on HN are not WSJ subscribers. Given that the purpose of posting links on HN is to be able to discuss them, WSJ links should either a) not be posted here, or b) they should have a paywall workaround automatically built-in. The entire reason that the "web" link exists is because it was assumed that sites would not risk being deindexed by Google for cloaking, and would therefore disable their paywalls when Google was the referrer. WSJ is the only major site that has chosen to brazenly run afoul of Google's cloaking policy (sadly, they have not yet suffered the consequences). So they warrant special treatment here, and by implementation of the "web" link, HN has already shown that it is willing to assist in paywall bypass.
- jrullman 10y agoThis Chrome extension does much the same thing — https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/xray/dgkdfehohjdbmnldpcegekjakcdjlnkg https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/xray/dgkdfehohjdbm...