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To read the article, just put a period (.) at the end of the domain. Eg. domain.com/article --> domain.com./article

by 1-6 7y ago

lisper 7y ago
I normally frown on people who whine about paywalls. Publishers have to make a living, and you are not entitled to access their content for free. But I gotta say, that is a devilishly clever hack.
- throwlaplace 7y ago
  bloomberg's media business is a giant content marketing play for the terminals themselves (that's why so many of the stories have deep links or whatever to their software)
przemub 7y ago
Do you know why does it work?
- johnbatch 7y ago
  looks like the JavaScript doesn't run because of CORS Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at https://www.bloomberg.com/markets/modules/datastrip.json?ver…&theme=blens&tickers=3902314Z:US,TREE:US,WFC:US,TFC:US,GS:US https://www.bloomberg.com/markets/modules/datastrip.json?ver.... (Reason: CORS header ‘Access-Control-Allow-Origin’ missing).
  - SilasX 7y ago
    So it only works for sites that depend on (client-side) JS to block the content?
- criddell 7y ago
  It didn't work for me. Instead it said I'm in private mode and said I should subscribe to keep reading. I'm using Firefox FWIW.
  - Hitton 7y ago
    This https://pastebin.com/UiyghKpq https://pastebin.com/UiyghKpq userscript should fix it. I found it few years ago somewhere on reddit. It works on multiple media sites that don't like private mode. And "Bypass Paywalls" firefox addon removes the need to insert the dot into address.
  - j0ba 7y ago
    Try the temporary containers plugin ;-)
wonderwonder 7y ago
"One weird trick.." "Developers hate him" :)
CalRobert 7y ago
or, load it in Firefox, while content is still loading cancel loading, and use reader mode
antsar 7y ago
uMatrix takes care of this paywall too.
justinzollars 7y ago
I love hacker news. Thank you for that
maximedb 7y ago
Or block javascript for this domain in the chrome settings.

To read the article, just put a period (.) at the end of the domain. Eg. domain.com/article --> domain.com./article

by 1-6 7y ago

To read the article, just put a period (.) at the end of the domain. Eg. domain.com/article --> domain.com./article

I normally frown on people who whine about paywalls. Publishers have to make a living, and you are not entitled to access their content for free. But I gotta say, that is a devilishly clever hack.

throwlaplace 7y ago
bloomberg's media business is a giant content marketing play for the terminals themselves (that's why so many of the stories have deep links or whatever to their software)

przemub 7y ago

Do you know why does it work?

johnbatch 7y ago
looks like the JavaScript doesn't run because of CORS Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at https://www.bloomberg.com/markets/modules/datastrip.json?ver…&theme=blens&tickers=3902314Z:US,TREE:US,WFC:US,TFC:US,GS:US https://www.bloomberg.com/markets/modules/datastrip.json?ver.... (Reason: CORS header ‘Access-Control-Allow-Origin’ missing).
- SilasX 7y ago
  So it only works for sites that depend on (client-side) JS to block the content?
criddell 7y ago
It didn't work for me. Instead it said I'm in private mode and said I should subscribe to keep reading. I'm using Firefox FWIW.
- Hitton 7y ago
  This https://pastebin.com/UiyghKpq https://pastebin.com/UiyghKpq userscript should fix it. I found it few years ago somewhere on reddit. It works on multiple media sites that don't like private mode. And "Bypass Paywalls" firefox addon removes the need to insert the dot into address.
- j0ba 7y ago
  Try the temporary containers plugin ;-)

wonderwonder 7y ago

"One weird trick.." "Developers hate him" :)

CalRobert 7y ago

or, load it in Firefox, while content is still loading cancel loading, and use reader mode

antsar 7y ago

uMatrix takes care of this paywall too.

justinzollars 7y ago

I love hacker news. Thank you for that

maximedb 7y ago

Or block javascript for this domain in the chrome settings.