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This url is a "free link" to subscriber-only LWN content, and shouldn't have been published on HN. Quoting from the MakeLink page: The "subscriber link" mechan
by codewiz 4y ago
This url is a "free link" to subscriber-only LWN content, and shouldn't have been published on HN. Quoting from the MakeLink page:
The "subscriber link" mechanism allows an LWN.net subscriber to generate a special URL for a subscription-only article. That URL can then be given to others, who will be able to access the article regardless of whether they are subscribed. This feature is made available as a service to LWN subscribers, and in the hope that they will use it to spread the word about their favorite LWN articles.
If this feature is abused, it will hurt LWN's subscription revenues and defeat the whole point. Subscriber links may go away if that comes about.
- detaro 4y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1966033 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1966033
- mardifoufs 4y agoHonestly in this case, it makes it more likely for me to subscribe. I wasn't aware of the quality of lwn articles before I started seeing them regularly on the HN frontpage, and I wouldn't have even thought about subscribing to a news source centered mostly around Linux before.