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Facebook referral trick works. Create a bookmark with: javascript:location.href='http://facebook.com/l.php?u='+encodeURIComponent(location.href) http://facebo

• amelius 9y ago
  Thanks. You can also go to the page, open console, and run this at the JS commandline: location.href='http://facebook.com/l.php?u='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)
  • swypych 9y ago
    Thats very cool, why does this work?
    • jimktrains2 9y ago
      The JS console has the same scope as JS running on the page. (as does javascript: URis).
    • semiquaver 9y ago
      WSJ (along with most news organizations that have paywalls) values clicks from social media highly enough to exempt them from the paywall. Another technique to bypass most paywalls is searching twitter for an article's title.
      • swypych 9y ago
        Interesting, thanks
• ajr0 9y ago
  thank you, unfortunately I block 100% of all facebook network requests on my wireless network by URLs and subnets. with this news I may consider opening a hole... but unlikely.
  • zulln 9y ago
    Just set the referrer to Facebook on all requests to WSJ then? You seem to be up to funny network configurations.