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Oof, I clicked and remembered WSJ is paywalled...what's the trick to get around that again?

textech 6y ago
https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome/blob/master/README.md https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome/blob/ma...
engineer_22 6y ago
wait around for someone to post an archive.org link
codazoda 6y ago
I was wondering why WSJ was down, then I remembered I sent it to localhost in frustration last time I clicked a link there. :P
DennisP 6y ago
One way is to just plug the URL into archive.is. Here's the article: http://archive.is/z90TL http://archive.is/z90TL
ProAm 6y ago
It's responsible to pay for good journalism.
- ekianjo 6y ago
  How can you judge it's good if you can't read more than 5 lines?
  - josefresco 6y ago
    Trust is determined by evaluating the institution. You don't get to ask for a partial refund of your newspaper subscription because you disliked one article.
  - freeopinion 6y ago
    Do you make the same argument for movies? books? cars?
    - mimi89999 6y ago
      I do
    - ekianjo 6y ago
      Yeah I dont judge movies by their trailers nor books by their back cover. Who does that?
- godelzilla 6y ago
  It's the WSJ though.
- pinkfoot 6y ago
  Sure, they just don't want my currency.
- Lendal 6y ago
  Yes, but is it responsible to pay for _all_ good journalism? You'd go bankrupt.
- dang 6y ago
  Paywall complaints, which this is a variant of, are off topic here. They're always the same, which means they just add noise. HN is a site for diffs. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989 https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=by%3Adang%20paywalls&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
  - ProAm 6y ago
    That is very fair, but why allow piracy with paywall workarounds? Are those considered off topic or illegal? It is a gray area, but people asking for a paywall workaround also seems OT in comments? I only ask because I think its important to the world to have good journalism because it helps to keep the other side of the fence (business and politics) accountable. And I believe that bypassing paywalls hurts that balance of powers.
    - dang 6y ago
      Because HN would be much worse off without NYT, Economist, WSJ, and so on. These publications are well aware of their paywall design and what can or can't be done to work around them. If they wanted hardwalls they would have them. Some publications do, and those are off limits here (edit: unless they're willing to unlock the article for HN readers, which The Information, for example, does occasionally). The situation is of course a mess, but until the publication business sorts itself out the way the music business eventually did, this is what we're left with. It sucks, but I don't know of any alternative that wouldn't suck worse. The difference between comments asking for paywall workarounds and comments complaining about paywalls is that the former gives people new things to read (albeit via a layer of indirection) while the latter just repeats something we've all read ad nauseum. It isn't a question of agreeing or disagreeing, but of avoiding repetition. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=by%3Adang%20curiosity%20repetition&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
chkaloon 6y ago
They have cheap trial periods that you can actually stop and start repeatedly. Of course, if you're a regular reader you should pay for it, but then they should also prevent re-using the trial period over and over. So maybe they don't care.
- RHSeeger 6y ago
  It could be that they don't want to make it _too_ difficult for the people that are trying to do the right thing. Like companies that put simple copy protection on their games, but nothing complicated that hurts the end user (like always online junk). Doing just enough to keep the honest people honest is generally considered to be a reasonable compromise.
hourislate 6y ago
Bypass Paywalls https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-firefox https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-firefox

https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome/blob/master/README.md https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome/blob/ma...

engineer_22 6y ago

wait around for someone to post an archive.org link

codazoda 6y ago

I was wondering why WSJ was down, then I remembered I sent it to localhost in frustration last time I clicked a link there. :P

DennisP 6y ago

One way is to just plug the URL into archive.is. Here's the article: http://archive.is/z90TL http://archive.is/z90TL

ProAm 6y ago

It's responsible to pay for good journalism.

ekianjo 6y ago
How can you judge it's good if you can't read more than 5 lines?
- josefresco 6y ago
  Trust is determined by evaluating the institution. You don't get to ask for a partial refund of your newspaper subscription because you disliked one article.
- freeopinion 6y ago
  Do you make the same argument for movies? books? cars?
  - mimi89999 6y ago
    I do
  - ekianjo 6y ago
    Yeah I dont judge movies by their trailers nor books by their back cover. Who does that?
godelzilla 6y ago
It's the WSJ though.
pinkfoot 6y ago
Sure, they just don't want my currency.
Lendal 6y ago
Yes, but is it responsible to pay for _all_ good journalism? You'd go bankrupt.
dang 6y ago
Paywall complaints, which this is a variant of, are off topic here. They're always the same, which means they just add noise. HN is a site for diffs. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989 https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=by%3Adang%20paywalls&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
- ProAm 6y ago
  That is very fair, but why allow piracy with paywall workarounds? Are those considered off topic or illegal? It is a gray area, but people asking for a paywall workaround also seems OT in comments? I only ask because I think its important to the world to have good journalism because it helps to keep the other side of the fence (business and politics) accountable. And I believe that bypassing paywalls hurts that balance of powers.
  - dang 6y ago
    Because HN would be much worse off without NYT, Economist, WSJ, and so on. These publications are well aware of their paywall design and what can or can't be done to work around them. If they wanted hardwalls they would have them. Some publications do, and those are off limits here (edit: unless they're willing to unlock the article for HN readers, which The Information, for example, does occasionally). The situation is of course a mess, but until the publication business sorts itself out the way the music business eventually did, this is what we're left with. It sucks, but I don't know of any alternative that wouldn't suck worse. The difference between comments asking for paywall workarounds and comments complaining about paywalls is that the former gives people new things to read (albeit via a layer of indirection) while the latter just repeats something we've all read ad nauseum. It isn't a question of agreeing or disagreeing, but of avoiding repetition. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=by%3Adang%20curiosity%20repetition&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

chkaloon 6y ago

They have cheap trial periods that you can actually stop and start repeatedly. Of course, if you're a regular reader you should pay for it, but then they should also prevent re-using the trial period over and over. So maybe they don't care.

RHSeeger 6y ago
It could be that they don't want to make it _too_ difficult for the people that are trying to do the right thing. Like companies that put simple copy protection on their games, but nothing complicated that hurts the end user (like always online junk). Doing just enough to keep the honest people honest is generally considered to be a reasonable compromise.

hourislate 6y ago

Bypass Paywalls https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-firefox https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-firefox