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Annoying to be sure, but you can circumvent the paywall by adding a period to the end of the domain name.

• garmaine 7y ago
  Why does this work?
  • dmitryminkovsky 7y ago
    I believe that technically all domain names start with (we enter them backwards into the browser) a dot and that dot represents the DNS root. So it works in the browser if you add that root explicitly. No idea for sure why this works but my guess is because the paywall is somehow programmed based on window.location or some backend equivalent that works against the domain without the explicit root.
  • downerending 7y ago
    It's a bug in the paywall code. Bank error in your favor. :-)
• dmitryminkovsky 7y ago
  Nice hack! Hacking paywalls to get content is irritating though :(
• thdrdt 7y ago
  But you can run into certificate problems.