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Many paywalls rely on client side JavaScript to work. My guess is that this has something to do with search engine indexing.
by john01dav 1y ago
Many paywalls rely on client side JavaScript to work. My guess is that this has something to do with search engine indexing.
- zahlman 1y agoAs a test, I whitelisted JavaScript in NoScript for theatlantic.com and the paywall appeared. I revoked it and it disappeared again. It appears to be purely client-side, not reliant on cookies or anything. So my conclusion is that an archive indeed shouldn't be necessary; people can just disable JavaScript. It doesn't cause issues with the page formatting or anything.
- cnst 1y agoMost browsers do NOT offer per-site JS disable buttons. It should not be necessary to change the browser to view a website; people can just use archive.today, which works fine in all browsers with JavaScript, and doesn't require a captcha, either, in browsers that don't block stuff. (It only requires captchas in those browsers that do block stuff.)