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Interesting. There are dozens of websites writing about this event, but users of Hacker News upvote the link, where you can not read an article without paying f
by IvanK_net 6y ago
Interesting. There are dozens of websites writing about this event, but users of Hacker News upvote the link, where you can not read an article without paying for it.
- dewey 6y agoI can read it and I didn't pay for it. You probably visited the website too many times and it hit the paywall limit.
- clivecusslerad 6y agoTry incognito.
- _joel 6y agoOr bypass paywalls extension
- abhayhegde 6y agoDoes not really work. I think it hides under a different JS banner.
- chrisseaton 6y agoPlease don’t complain about paywalls here - it’s against the guidelines and boring.
- abstractbarista 6y agoIt is? Yikes. If there's a paywall, I just end up reading the comments and never the article. Oh well.
- stordoff 6y agoIt's in the FAQs: > 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. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
- rozab 6y agoJust turn off js or go incognito. Are you a hacker or not?
- jffry 6y agoInteresting. You could attempt to self-serve with a workaround and share the result, but instead you chose to complain out loud. Anyways here is a mirror if you can't read due to the paywall: https://archive.is/RL4my https://archive.is/RL4my
- IvanK_net 6y agoI think it is wrong to steal the work of others (circumventing the conditions under which the author is willing to offer you their work). If the law is bad, breaking it is not a solution. Changing the law is a solution.
- dragonwriter 6y ago> If the law is bad, breaking it is not a solution. Breaking the law is often instrumental to changing it. The progressive collapse of marijuana prohibition wouldn't have happened if people hadn't consistently disobeyed the law. Civil Rights wouldn't have happened without people actively breaking the laws at issue. And so on.
- IvanK_net 6y agoWe are talking about two different things. Should the author of some text have a right to ask money from people, for allowing them to read it? I think they should have such right and it is wrong to break it. Should the users of Hacker News promote expensive software, websites ... when there are cheaper or free alternatives? The users of Hacker News should be educated. Unless Bloomberg has several HN accounts and upvoted this link itself.
- dragonwriter 6y ago> Should the author of some text have a right to ask money from people, for allowing them to read it? I think they should have such right and it is wrong to break it. So your issue isn't “if you think the law is wrong, breaking it isn't a solution” but “disagreeing with the law is wrong”. Which may be a legitimate opinion, but it is dishonest to say the first when you mean the second, and your disagreement with the action isn't because you think people should work to change the law without breaking it as a tactical approaches, but because you think people should support the law in the first place.
- josefresco 6y agoA subscription to Bloomberg digital costs about $419/year.