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Could someone please post a link to a non-paywalled article?

dazhbog 7y ago
Here in HN you have to fight to read a WSJ article. WSJ articles are pure quality, and for you normal human, to lay eyes on that supreme piece of journalism, clicking "web" and playing with the referrer is not enough. Jokes aside, can't bypass the paywall either.
- mikro2nd 7y ago
  Disabling JS for the site seems to work for me.
- Yhippa 7y ago
  Does the web link work for anybody? Hasn't worked for me in a long time.
DennisP 7y ago
I don't know why, but appending "?mod=rsswn" to a WSJ link does the trick.
bradleyjg 7y ago
https://subscription.wsj.com/wsj-com-wall-street-journal/ https://subscription.wsj.com/wsj-com-wall-street-journal/
- DennisP 7y ago
  That's a lot of money for one article. We need a better payment model for this environment where we're all reading a few articles each from lots of different publications. Maybe a micropayment per article (pushing the pay button is less work than getting around paywalls), or a consortium model where a lot of publications team up and divide your subscription money according to how much you read each one. I subscribe to what I read most, but I'm not going to subscribe to thirty different magazines and newspapers.
  - bradleyjg 7y ago
    That’s totally fair, but you can just not read articles in publications you don’t want to buy, right?
    - DennisP 7y ago
      I could, but since the publisher doesn't get my money either way, and showing me the article costs about the same as showing me a paywall page, I don't see the point. Bypassing paywalls seems to me about as offensive as going to a bookstore and looking through a magazine without buying it. Maybe I end up buying a magazine, but I'm not going to buy every magazine I pick up, and basically everybody thinks that's fine.
      - bradleyjg 7y ago
        I’d say bypassing a paywall is like tearing the plastic off a sealed magazine. If the publisher was okay with you thumbing through it they wouldn’t have sealed it in plastic. Same with a paywall. Publishers have the option of a nag screen instead if they want to go that route.
achow 7y ago
https://www.wsj.com/articles/googles-dominance-is-no-longer-a-sure-thing-11559427954?mod=rsswn https://www.wsj.com/articles/googles-dominance-is-no-longer-...

Here in HN you have to fight to read a WSJ article. WSJ articles are pure quality, and for you normal human, to lay eyes on that supreme piece of journalism, clicking "web" and playing with the referrer is not enough. Jokes aside, can't bypass the paywall either.

mikro2nd 7y ago
Disabling JS for the site seems to work for me.
Yhippa 7y ago
Does the web link work for anybody? Hasn't worked for me in a long time.

DennisP 7y ago

I don't know why, but appending "?mod=rsswn" to a WSJ link does the trick.

bradleyjg 7y ago

https://subscription.wsj.com/wsj-com-wall-street-journal/ https://subscription.wsj.com/wsj-com-wall-street-journal/

DennisP 7y ago
That's a lot of money for one article. We need a better payment model for this environment where we're all reading a few articles each from lots of different publications. Maybe a micropayment per article (pushing the pay button is less work than getting around paywalls), or a consortium model where a lot of publications team up and divide your subscription money according to how much you read each one. I subscribe to what I read most, but I'm not going to subscribe to thirty different magazines and newspapers.
- bradleyjg 7y ago
  That’s totally fair, but you can just not read articles in publications you don’t want to buy, right?
  - DennisP 7y ago
    I could, but since the publisher doesn't get my money either way, and showing me the article costs about the same as showing me a paywall page, I don't see the point. Bypassing paywalls seems to me about as offensive as going to a bookstore and looking through a magazine without buying it. Maybe I end up buying a magazine, but I'm not going to buy every magazine I pick up, and basically everybody thinks that's fine.
    - bradleyjg 7y ago
      I’d say bypassing a paywall is like tearing the plastic off a sealed magazine. If the publisher was okay with you thumbing through it they wouldn’t have sealed it in plastic. Same with a paywall. Publishers have the option of a nag screen instead if they want to go that route.

achow 7y ago

https://www.wsj.com/articles/googles-dominance-is-no-longer-a-sure-thing-11559427954?mod=rsswn https://www.wsj.com/articles/googles-dominance-is-no-longer-...