It's an interesting development because the amount of people who actively seek to bypass paywalls must be negligible. While it's mostly second nature to a large

It's an interesting development because the amount of people who actively seek to bypass paywalls must be negligible. While it's mostly second nature to a large swathe of the HN crowd, devtools/private browsing/Google-refe[r]rer plays aren't exactly typical browsing tricks for the average person. I can only extrapolate that it's either it's either a) a bid to be seen to be doing something to higher-ups or b) an attempt to garner subscriptions from the tech crowd with the nous to bypass a paywall ue to low numbers [0]. The latter seems unlikely on account of actual conversions and the former seems myopic. I'd love to be a fly on the wall at some of these meetings! [0] - https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/01/business/media/new-york-times-earnings-subscribers.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/01/business/media/new-york-t...