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This is cool, thanks for sharing this site (archive.is). Does this work because your browser was logged into a paid WSJ account before you used archive.is to l
by aerotwelve 8y ago
This is cool, thanks for sharing this site (archive.is).
Does this work because your browser was logged into a paid WSJ account before you used archive.is to log the page? Or is it only because WSJ's paywall allows archiving sites to read full articles as a matter of policy?
Just curious to know how reliable this solution might be for other sites.
- intopieces 8y agoI have no WSJ account. The service apparently does, since I use it to get around their paywall pretty often
- RandallBrown 8y agoWSJ allows archiving sites to read full articles. Google requires anything reachable via their search engine isn't behind a paywall. Paste the full URL into a google.com search and click the link. You'll bypass the paywall, because google is the referrer. WSJ and other news sites go along with this because it's not worth it for them to be excluded from search indexes.