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Behind a paywall. What's the point of posting it here?

I don't know if the WSJ still counts as having a paywall with a workaround.

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

> Publications like NYT, WSJ, the Economist, and the New Yorker have paywalls that leave ways for readers to work around them. Such stories are OK to post to Hacker News. Yes, the workarounds are a nuisance, but the loss of many substantive articles would be worse. In the future, when someone doesn't understand this, please politely direct them to this thread or to HN's FAQ [1], which now makes this explicit.

> Complaints about paywalls are off-topic here.

Click on the "web" link at the top of this HN page and then go to the article from Google.

WSJ isn't pay walled if Google is the referrer.

That used to work, but I just tried it and it didn't work for me.

I get a "subscribe or sign in"

Try a clean browser instance?

Yep. Anywhere. Perhaps it's paywalled outside USA?

Across the Atlantic here and it opens directly in a new tab. That's with uMatrix blocking several scripts though.

Doesn't work anymore. At least not outside the US.

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