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Alternatively, here's a tiny firefox extension that replaces your referrer with "Facebook" whenever you try and access the WSJ or the Financial Times: https://
by fwdpropaganda 8y ago
Alternatively, here's a tiny firefox extension that replaces your referrer with "Facebook" whenever you try and access the WSJ or the Financial Times:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/read-ft-wsj/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/read-ft-wsj/
- hultner 8y agoDoes that actually work? If so I suppose it would be quite easy to port to other browsers.
- toyg 8y agoJust tested and it does indeed work. One should probably use private mode in combination, so cookies get reset every time.
- hultner 8y agoNice, I just loaded the extension into chrome manually and it seems to work.
- fwdpropaganda 8y agoYes, probably. Personally, I always use uMatrix and block all cookies by default (except for some specific websites which I manually whitelist). So I have no idea what happens if you use this extension without blocking cookies.
- fwdpropaganda 8y agoThat actually does work. Also works for Chrome. On github: https://github.com/JoaoAparicio/read-ft-wsj/ https://github.com/JoaoAparicio/read-ft-wsj/
- s3m4j 8y agoOr under the submission you can click the "web" link which sends you to a google search and through that you'll have non-paywalled access. (JFYI, since that link is there on HN, and it's periodically forgotten)
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- infinite8s 8y agoThe web link no longer works with the Wall Street Journal.
- venning 8y agoIt did for me just now. Android phone, web link into Incognito Mode, open AMP link. Full text.
- mdrzn 8y agoThat trick stopped working a while ago on desktop pc tho. It seems it still works on mobile.
- joosters 8y agoWow, that really seems to work! Thanks for the link.