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This works (even without the bypass paywalls extension) in a firefox private window: https://m.facebook.com/flx/warn/?u=https://www.wsj.com/articles/nsa-recomm

by mzs 8y ago

This works (even without the bypass paywalls extension) in a firefox private window: https://m.facebook.com/flx/warn/?u=https://www.wsj.com/articles/nsa-recommends-dropping-phone-surveillance-program-11556138247?mod=rsswn https://m.facebook.com/flx/warn/?u=https://www.wsj.com/artic... I guess what I'm saying is that HN should not penalize the company doing the journalism. People can buy a subscription, those that won't still have a technical solution, and for the rest they can google like you did and find an article to read among the blogspam.

dang 8y ago
There's simply no good solution here, short of the publishing business restructuring so we can pay once to read everything, which I hope I live to see. In the meantime, we have a clear if sucky policy, described at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989, with plenty more explanation at https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix&page=0&query=by:dang%20paywall https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme.... It is the way it is not because we or anyone else likes it, but because the alternatives would suck worse.
- mzs 8y ago
  WSJ is not a hard paywall+, it has multiple technical solutions similar to what was allowed before, open these in a private window for example: https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-yale-dad-who-set-off-the-college-admissions-scandal-11552588402?mod=rsswn https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-yale-dad-who-set-off-the-co... https://facebook.com/l.php?u=https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-autism-diagnosis-that-isnt-always-permanent-11553526845?mod=rsswn https://facebook.com/l.php?u=https://www.wsj.com/articles/th... https://m.facebook.com/flx/warn/?u=https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-violated-qualcomm-patent-u-s-trade-judge-rules-11553624866?mod=rsswn https://m.facebook.com/flx/warn/?u=https://www.wsj.com/artic... Notice that "?mod=rsswn" is used as described in this issue^ for a browser extension which can be used for a number of sites. I'll try all these after I click reply and edit if it does not work. + https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19496356#19506786 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19496356#19506786 ^ https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-firefox/issues/120 https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-firefox/issues... edit: All worked though an ad appeared over the article that I was able to dismiss by clicking on the small x in the upper right of the ad itself. Then I was able to read all those articles without being logged-in to the WSJ, just like readers of HNs could before.

by mzs 8y ago

dang 8y ago

There's simply no good solution here, short of the publishing business restructuring so we can pay once to read everything, which I hope I live to see. In the meantime, we have a clear if sucky policy, described at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989, with plenty more explanation at https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix&page=0&query=by:dang%20paywall https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme.... It is the way it is not because we or anyone else likes it, but because the alternatives would suck worse.

mzs 8y ago
WSJ is not a hard paywall+, it has multiple technical solutions similar to what was allowed before, open these in a private window for example: https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-yale-dad-who-set-off-the-college-admissions-scandal-11552588402?mod=rsswn https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-yale-dad-who-set-off-the-co... https://facebook.com/l.php?u=https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-autism-diagnosis-that-isnt-always-permanent-11553526845?mod=rsswn https://facebook.com/l.php?u=https://www.wsj.com/articles/th... https://m.facebook.com/flx/warn/?u=https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-violated-qualcomm-patent-u-s-trade-judge-rules-11553624866?mod=rsswn https://m.facebook.com/flx/warn/?u=https://www.wsj.com/artic... Notice that "?mod=rsswn" is used as described in this issue^ for a browser extension which can be used for a number of sites. I'll try all these after I click reply and edit if it does not work. + https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19496356#19506786 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19496356#19506786 ^ https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-firefox/issues/120 https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-firefox/issues... edit: All worked though an ad appeared over the article that I was able to dismiss by clicking on the small x in the upper right of the ad itself. Then I was able to read all those articles without being logged-in to the WSJ, just like readers of HNs could before.