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Comment by pragone | Hacker News Reader

Wanna give a non-paywalled synopsis for those of us without a WSJ subscription?

Edit: Mass-reply: Thanks all! Learn something new every day.

For those looking for the same thing, go here, click first link. Should bypass the paywall: https://www.google.com/search?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsj.com%2Fa...

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Pro-tip: You can generally take any paywall blocked article, copy the URL into the Google search bar and click the first-result to get a non-paywall blocked version. Works for NYTimes, WSJ and a few others I can't remember.

Bookmarklet?

javascript:window.location="https://www.google.com/search?q="+window.location

Or better yet:-

javascript:window.location="https://www.google.com/url?q="+window.location

Lovely idea, if only it worked for WSJ... Not in Firefox or Chrome on my Macs. Nor in private/incognito mode.

Google the URL and access it from search results and the paywall disappears:

https://www.google.com/search?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsj.com%2Fa...

For some reason the article itself fails to load (only WSJ page w/ comments). FYI for anyone running into issues: Apple News works for me.

You can read it: https://h4labs.wordpress.com/2015/09/14/hacker-news-faq-1-ho...

https://www.google.com/search?q=Apple+Speeds+Up+Electric-Car...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989

tldr: Shipping something by 2019, hopefully.

Also per the other comments saying "dump the link into google". You can fake it with something like https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/referer-control/hn...

Side question... when we use the Google search workaround, is Google paying WSJ for the view?

Not as far as I know. It's basically a compromise after sites began implementing paywalls, but then complaining when Google would stop listing the paywalled content. As long as a user coming from Google got to read the full text of the destination page for free, Google agreed to continue listing the site.

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