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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