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Is there a plugin/addon to block paywalled links on HN?
I don't plan on ever paying for access to articles. When I click a link on HN that requires a subscription to read the article I just click the back button. It would be great to have a little dollar sign icon to save me the click and save the world the wasted bandwidth. Is there a browser plugin that will mark paywalled links or eliminate them?
- cmrx64 3y agoThe popular alternative (many paywalled articles will even have a top comment with this generated already) is to use the fabulous service https://archive.ph https://archive.ph
- helph67 3y agoThis previous discussion may assist. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26212645 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26212645
- KomoD 3y agoIf you look at the comments there will usually be someone who has posted a link to an archive that bypasses paywalls. But no, I haven't seen any existing extensions or userscripts for it
- switch007 3y agoI'd love to see auto pinning of comments which post a paywall bypass link
- solardev 3y agoThis extension will auto-bypass many paywalls: https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome
- solardev 3y agoCan we throw twitter links in that bucket too?
- june07 3y agoJust use this https://archive.is/ https://archive.is/ seems to work fairly well and however it's crawling the sites bypasses paywalls... at least for me.