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He is actually showcasing a very nice technique to get around paywalls: turn off JS. Often enough that’s enough to get around the paywall. I believe the archive
by dirtnugget 6y ago
He is actually showcasing a very nice technique to get around paywalls: turn off JS. Often enough that’s enough to get around the paywall. I believe the archives also disable JS when grabbing the content.
- rchaud 6y agoThat is changing. I've noticed over the past couple of years that sites that could be accessed with JS turned off are now showing a "Please enable Javascript to continue" (Quora) or just hiding the content entirely (Business Insider). I'm sure there are other examples as well.
- dirtnugget 6y agoNot surprised. When paywalls started becoming a thing most of them could be circumvented simply by removing a DOM element and some CSS classes. Nowadays this is basically not possible anywhere anymore.
- CassSunscreen 6y agoI use to be able to archive paywall websites and view them which would get around the paywall but they seem to have gotten wise to it Now the archive comes up with the paywall message in it Still works on some sites by just simply archiving the page