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Ask HN: Can we ban BusinessInsider's paid article links for HN community?
Hello There,
I am seeing so many links from BusinessInsider on Hackernews. To read the article we need to pay them. I still don't know what is the point for posting it over here. This is the community to share knowledge without charging any money. Why are we allowing them to post those links in this community? This is not a community to make some money. Please share knowledge without charging any money. Internet should be free and open.
- detaro 7y agoHN's policy on paywalls is clear: if there's a way to work around them, they are allowed. Given that I can't remember ever seeing a paywall on BusinessInsider, I suspect a strong adblocker suffices as a workaround.
- mcenedella 7y agoDoes that work for WaPo articles also?
- ChrisGranger 7y agouBlock Origin seems to get around them for me. You might also try https://outline.com/ https://outline.com/ though that doesn't always work on paywalls.
- dredmorbius 7y agoIncognito, archive.is, and outline.com will provide WashPo.
- wyldfire 7y agoWaPo links work fine for me in incognito mode (so it can't accumulate a count of articles read). But NYT recently started detecting/restricting incognito mode. So now for NYT you have to do the same thing as WSJ links: click 'web' or look up the article's title on Google. Then with Google as the referrer NYT will not paywall the article.
- wesammikhail 7y agoThis should be the case for all paywall sites imo.
- chrisseaton 7y agoHN's policy on this is really clear - > please don't post complaints about paywalls. Those are off topic
- PaulHoule 7y agoI think some of their articles are behind a paywall and others aren't.