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Ask HN: Why not auto replace paywall links with web archive links?
It would make reading and interacting with articles so much easier?
- anigbrowl 3y agoI've suggested this too. At the least the archive link could just be added to the control row (immediately under the title) instead of being a crufty comment.
- pestatije 3y agopaywalls are there for a reason...the more you facilitate breaking them the more you resemble thepiratebay...and you dont want HN to end like that
- totetsu 3y agoPresumably the number of people following a paywall link from Hn and then deciding to sign up for a newspaper subscription etc is grater than 0
- keikobadthebad 3y agoDon't want to be on the hook for contributory copyright infringement?
- joshxyz 3y agoor just have a bot that auto coomments the archive link. plausible deniability.
- solardev 3y agoDoes HN even allow bots?
- brudgers 3y agohttps://archive.ph/LnakG https://archive.ph/LnakG On HN, linking to archive.org has traditionally been considered a user activity and some people have a bookmarklet for that purpose using this URL: javascript:void(open('http://archive.today/?run=1&url='+encodeURIComponent(document.location) http://archive.today/?run=1&url='+encodeURIComponent(documen...)) If a submission doesn't matter enough for at least one user to do that, it probably doesn't matter enough to be on HN. YMMV. But this is Hacker news.
- paulcole 3y agoWhy allow archive links to paywalled articles at all? Pay for the content or don’t read it.