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Comment by jackfrodo | Hacker News Reader

Anyone know how to get around the paywall?

This seemed to work for me:

    curl -H "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.2; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)" http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-mystery-of-when-to-stop-antidepressants-1457377316 | tee file.html

(changing the user-agent slightly on each attempt)

Used https://www.npmjs.com/package/http-server to start a local webserver to view the file for CORS purposes.

If you're still having trouble, adding it to a reader like Pocket will get it for you.

That worked. Thank you!

Google for "The Mystery of When to Stop Antidepressants" and click through there. Didn't work for me in 'incognito mode' but it did when running normally. YMMV.

There seems to be sites that think of private browsing as ad blocker. A watchdog script and firefox with new profile takes 10 seconds ... why do they even bother.

I was totally unable to bypass it as well.

Same here. Tried Chrome and FF in regular mode, all extensions off.

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