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I hate it when people post HN articles behind a paywall. It feels oddly familiar of Borat's catchphrase, "You will never get this! You will never get this!"

• ohitsdom 12y ago
  Just google the article title and click through from the search results. Annoying but it works.
  • shockzzz 12y ago
    How do websites actually implement that?
    • ocdtrekkie 12y ago
      They can see what the inbound referrer is to their page.
    • thrillgore 12y ago
      I don't know how WSJ does, but Press+, a vendor used by many local newspapers uses Local Storage to assign a GUID, and then they track the GUID. It's easily defeated.
    • ripdog 12y ago
      Checking the referrer header.
      • shockzzz 12y ago
        Right, forgot about that. I wish something like this was rolled into AdBlock, but it'd be nice for viewing NYT and WSJ: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/referer-control/hnkcfpcejkafcihlgbojoidoihckciin?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/referer-control/hn...
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  • shawkinaw 12y ago
    Or use the Referer Control Chrome extension [0] and set the referer to http://news.google.com http://news.google.com for all requests to http://www.wsj.com http://www.wsj.com. [0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/referer-control/hnkcfpcejkafcihlgbojoidoihckciin https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/referer-control/hn...
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    • shockzzz 12y ago
      Just found that! Thanks!
  • 27182818284 12y ago
    There are tons of solutions including folks re-typing the article, but I think the way better course of action is to keep pay-walled articles off HN