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https://t.co/kw7ykC3763 https://t.co/kw7ykC3763 Without paywall courtesy of FT twitter post

colpabar 4y ago
So I'm assuming that's a link posted on twitter that includes some flag that prevents the site from paywalling the article? Neat. I'll still post a humble archive link as well. https://archive.is/6MBEL https://archive.is/6MBEL
- cypherpunks01 4y ago
  Yes, FT's article links posted on twitter have a cool behavior where it bypasses paywall if you enter through the right Referer (I assume) Garnered from https://twitter.com/FT/status/1635265357048082435 https://twitter.com/FT/status/1635265357048082435 I like them for this, but I don't see a lot of other news outlets doing this. Most other places simply post links to their paywalled articles.
  - doodlesdev 4y ago
    It's just Google Tag Manager, that's also why if you have JavaScript disabled or ClearURLs (or similar) it won't work as they won't be able to see the UTM tag.
- shagie 4y ago
  Chasing links... https://t.co/kw7ykC3763 returns a 301 to https://on.ft.com/3Jy8UBY https://on.ft.com/3Jy8UBY returns a 301 to https://ft.trib.al/b2FR72U https://ft.trib.al/b2FR72U returns a 301 to https://www.ft.com/content/ebba73d9-d319-4634-aa09-bbf09ee4a03b There's certainly some magic with going from the t.co link - going to the other two direct hit the paywall. :method: GET :scheme: https :authority: www.ft.com :path: /content/ebba73d9-d319-4634-aa09-bbf09ee4a03b {cookie with lots of stuff in it redacted} Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br Host: www.ft.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/16.3 Safari/605.1.15 Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.9 Referer: https://t.co/ Connection: keep-alive Yep, there's a referer in there. Curling the page gets the trial text (ghads that's verbose html). curl --referer https://t.co/ https://www.ft.com/content/ebba73d9-d319-4634-aa09-bbf09ee4a03b | less And that returns the expected trial-less text.

So I'm assuming that's a link posted on twitter that includes some flag that prevents the site from paywalling the article? Neat. I'll still post a humble archive link as well. https://archive.is/6MBEL https://archive.is/6MBEL

cypherpunks01 4y ago
Yes, FT's article links posted on twitter have a cool behavior where it bypasses paywall if you enter through the right Referer (I assume) Garnered from https://twitter.com/FT/status/1635265357048082435 https://twitter.com/FT/status/1635265357048082435 I like them for this, but I don't see a lot of other news outlets doing this. Most other places simply post links to their paywalled articles.
- doodlesdev 4y ago
  It's just Google Tag Manager, that's also why if you have JavaScript disabled or ClearURLs (or similar) it won't work as they won't be able to see the UTM tag.
shagie 4y ago
Chasing links... https://t.co/kw7ykC3763 returns a 301 to https://on.ft.com/3Jy8UBY https://on.ft.com/3Jy8UBY returns a 301 to https://ft.trib.al/b2FR72U https://ft.trib.al/b2FR72U returns a 301 to https://www.ft.com/content/ebba73d9-d319-4634-aa09-bbf09ee4a03b There's certainly some magic with going from the t.co link - going to the other two direct hit the paywall. :method: GET :scheme: https :authority: www.ft.com :path: /content/ebba73d9-d319-4634-aa09-bbf09ee4a03b {cookie with lots of stuff in it redacted} Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br Host: www.ft.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/16.3 Safari/605.1.15 Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.9 Referer: https://t.co/ Connection: keep-alive Yep, there's a referer in there. Curling the page gets the trial text (ghads that's verbose html). curl --referer https://t.co/ https://www.ft.com/content/ebba73d9-d319-4634-aa09-bbf09ee4a03b | less And that returns the expected trial-less text.