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I don't follow. Would using the plugin be less acceptable if the paywall were harder to get around?

• esrauch 12y ago
  Yes, definitely.
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• maratd 12y ago
  > Would using the plugin be less acceptable if the paywall were harder to get around? I don't see the plugin as getting around their paywall. I see it as getting around moronic web development. For example, if a site has unbelievably intrusive advertising and I install an ad blocker. Or a site pops up a register for our newsletter modal and it's blocking the content and there's no way to close it ... so I open up the console and remove the dom node entirely so I can see the article. In other words, stupid shit that 99.9% of people don't know how to get around, but a web developer can get around in a few seconds. That's not hacking or bypassing anything, that's just moronic web development. If you want to put up a paywall, that's fine. A wall is a wall. If you make a hole in the wall on purpose and people walk through that hole, don't blame the people ... blame the wall.