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It's almost certainly my adblocker playing poorly with their "subscribe to read" stuff, but I had to lol at the failure mode. When I load the page, I get the s
by Groxx 5mo ago
It's almost certainly my adblocker playing poorly with their "subscribe to read" stuff, but I had to lol at the failure mode. When I load the page, I get the splash image/headline, and below it:
> Subscribe to listen [9 minutes]
> Aerodynamic drag is a major “barrier” in high-speed airplanes, automobiles, and bullet trains. This is because a design with less aerodynamic drag allows the aircraft to move at higher speeds with less energy.
And then just comments and links to other articles. No indication at all that there's more to the article beyond (apparently) an audio recording.
This might explain some of the "didn't read the article" comments? Not that it doesn't happen anyway tho.
- gregman1 5mo agoSame stuff! I’d rather prefer some archive link or something. Some websites are a bit aggressive these days.
- gregman1 5mo agoIf you happened to know Japanese it’s much easier to read the original article on wiredjp than .com https://wired.jp/article/distributed-micro-roughness-aerodynamic-drag-reduction/ https://wired.jp/article/distributed-micro-roughness-aerodyn...
- bookofjoe 5mo agohttps://archive.ph/YwAky https://archive.ph/YwAky
- pwinwood 5mo agoSame happened to me but I opened it in reader view in Firefox and it's fine!
- littlexsparkee 5mo agoIf you're quick to hit the play button (it briefly says 'Listen' on page load) with page inspect open, you can get the audio link in the network tab.
- ryankrage77 5mo agoI got "you've read your last free article", and I thought "No I haven't, there's no article for me to even read". Then I closed the tab.