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seriously people, quit posting paywalled content.

by rwdim 6y ago

fxtentacle 6y ago
While I agree, there would be very little left otherwise.
- CC38 6y ago
  Baloney! There is enough non-gated content on the internet to keep any one of us busy until the day we die.
- CC38 6y ago
  Well thanks. You made me realize that I have no ability to downvote here because I don't have a high enough score. This lets karma whores like yourself bully new users when they say something true that you don't like. At this point I decided that HackerNews is just another Reddit with slightly different problems. I wanted to delete my account. Wow! You can't do that! Simply amazing. What kind of incompetent makes a website that doesn't allow users to control their digital footprint? Count me out of this little experiment. I'm glad I didn't post more before finding out. I will not be back to read or comment on this site again. So have fun talking whatever kinds of smack you want to my dead account.
Exmoor 6y ago
It would've taken about the same amount of time to find and link a non-paywalled article, and been much more useful. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/12/31/wisconsin-covid-19-vaccine-ruined-aurora-employee/4097416001/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/12/31/wiscon...
pomian 6y ago
Can read it fine within hn app(Android - manual maly)
hombre_fatal 6y ago
No. I don't only want to read ad-driven content. Time to learn how to bypass paywalls in 2020.
- NoOneNew 6y ago
  To be fair, doesn't bypassing paywalls kind of the defeat the purpose for these sites to be able to provide content without ads? Thus, ad driven content is the only way for them to keep the lights on.
  - fencepost 6y ago
    Frequently bypassing is just searching for the title to pick it up at another news site that it's syndicated to.
  - EdJiang 6y ago
    The WashPo paywall is the worst -- it rewrites your address bar so you can't even bookmark the URL for later or copy/paste it to share. Really frustrating on mobile when you can be in an app that's not logged into WashPo. Why would the product team make that decision?
- skeeter2020 6y ago
  so... you don't want to pay for content or get ads. Enjoy your cake.
  - fingerlocks 6y ago
    You can bypass a paywall by paying. That’s how I interpreted the post.
kergonath 6y ago
That’s fine. The discussions here are most of the time more interesting than the articles anyway. And there are ways around most paywalls if one article is particularly interesting.
- loopz 6y ago
  No, we already got /. for that.
  - kergonath 6y ago
    Not really comparable. Slashdot’s fine for flame wars but much less interesting than HN. Narrower in scope as well.
driverdan 6y ago
https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome
newdude116 6y ago
Dunno. My "bypass paywalls clean" Browser-add on does wonders.
blendergeek 6y ago
Paywall content is explicitly ok on Hacker News. From the FAQ [0]: > Are paywalls ok? > It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds. > In comments, it's ok to ask how to read an article and to help other users do so. But please don't post complaints about paywalls. Those are off topic. More here. [1] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989

seriously people, quit posting paywalled content.

by rwdim 6y ago

seriously people, quit posting paywalled content.

fxtentacle 6y ago

While I agree, there would be very little left otherwise.

CC38 6y ago
Baloney! There is enough non-gated content on the internet to keep any one of us busy until the day we die.
CC38 6y ago
Well thanks. You made me realize that I have no ability to downvote here because I don't have a high enough score. This lets karma whores like yourself bully new users when they say something true that you don't like. At this point I decided that HackerNews is just another Reddit with slightly different problems. I wanted to delete my account. Wow! You can't do that! Simply amazing. What kind of incompetent makes a website that doesn't allow users to control their digital footprint? Count me out of this little experiment. I'm glad I didn't post more before finding out. I will not be back to read or comment on this site again. So have fun talking whatever kinds of smack you want to my dead account.

Exmoor 6y ago

It would've taken about the same amount of time to find and link a non-paywalled article, and been much more useful. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/12/31/wisconsin-covid-19-vaccine-ruined-aurora-employee/4097416001/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/12/31/wiscon...

pomian 6y ago

Can read it fine within hn app(Android - manual maly)

hombre_fatal 6y ago

No. I don't only want to read ad-driven content. Time to learn how to bypass paywalls in 2020.

NoOneNew 6y ago
To be fair, doesn't bypassing paywalls kind of the defeat the purpose for these sites to be able to provide content without ads? Thus, ad driven content is the only way for them to keep the lights on.
- fencepost 6y ago
  Frequently bypassing is just searching for the title to pick it up at another news site that it's syndicated to.
- EdJiang 6y ago
  The WashPo paywall is the worst -- it rewrites your address bar so you can't even bookmark the URL for later or copy/paste it to share. Really frustrating on mobile when you can be in an app that's not logged into WashPo. Why would the product team make that decision?
skeeter2020 6y ago
so... you don't want to pay for content or get ads. Enjoy your cake.
- fingerlocks 6y ago
  You can bypass a paywall by paying. That’s how I interpreted the post.

kergonath 6y ago

That’s fine. The discussions here are most of the time more interesting than the articles anyway. And there are ways around most paywalls if one article is particularly interesting.

loopz 6y ago
No, we already got /. for that.
- kergonath 6y ago
  Not really comparable. Slashdot’s fine for flame wars but much less interesting than HN. Narrower in scope as well.

driverdan 6y ago

https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome

newdude116 6y ago

Dunno. My "bypass paywalls clean" Browser-add on does wonders.

blendergeek 6y ago

Paywall content is explicitly ok on Hacker News. From the FAQ [0]: > Are paywalls ok? > It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds. > In comments, it's ok to ask how to read an article and to help other users do so. But please don't post complaints about paywalls. Those are off topic. More here. [1] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989