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Ask HN: Can we stop linking to subscriber only content?
Why is it that submitting content that requires a Google or Facebook sign in is so frowned upon, but linking to subscriber only content is perfectly acceptable. The most common case of this is The New York Times, as seen in this link that is currently number 10 on the front page.
Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/gxR2Ma6.png
Thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6111352
- t0 13y agoYou're probably the only one to visit the New York Times 10 times. I'm still at zero.
- johnward 13y agoThe pay wall only appears after 10 views? I was so confused because I never see the paywall and I see people complain.
- danso 13y agoThis is your question: > Why is it that submitting content that requires a Google or Facebook sign in is so frowned upon A New York Times article does not require a sign-in. The article in question is not subscriber only-content. You do not need to sign-in nor be a subscriber to read this article. The NYT allows 10 articles a month to be read for free. So your question should be phrased as: "Why does HN allow links to sites on which I have exceeded the amount of free content that I am personally allocated?" But you don't even need to go that far. You can turn off the JavaScript in your browser, which, for many of FB-login type websites, would not work.
- paranoiacblack 13y agoTo summarize this for you OP: no, fuck you, do it yourself. #HN
- gruseom 13y agoI've noticed a pattern. People who sneer at HN—of whom there are more than a few, it's quite a thing now—always think it's other people who are the assholes. To reply to zombio: it's probably that NYT and WaPo are such major publications that a site that wants to link to the best content can't very well exclude them. I agree it's annoying. What I do is visit the URLs in an incognito browser window.
- paranoiacblack 13y ago> of whom there are more than a few, it's quite a thing now lol
- gruseom 13y agoIt's quite true. There are lots of examples here and many more on Twitter. I suspect the reason is that once something has reached a certain popularity, it becomes more of a status move to identify against it than with it.
- paranoiacblack 13y agoPlease stop talking about counter cultures like it's some new idea you came up with. You don't even realize why it's so easy to make fun of y'all, goddamn.
- strathmeyer 13y agoWhat do I do when incognito doesn't work? Why can't posters link to real content?
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- ivank 13y agoFirefox and Chrome have a cookie whitelisting feature. You can let non-whitelisted sites set whatever cookies they want, but have them cleared on browser exit.
- notahacker 13y agoThere's also the ability to open a URL in a new private window. I suspect circumvention of cookie-based blocking is the second most used reason for "private browsing" after looking at porn.
- meadhikari 13y agoFor New York Times articles, I have started to use viewtext. It works everytime and I just get the text http://viewtext.org/api/text?url=<nytimesurl> http://viewtext.org/api/text?url=<nytimesurl> Edit: How about all New York Times articles get redirected through the viewtext route? Or would that be just too much