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For folks who can't get past the WSJ paywall:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/12/business/international/sam...

> SEOUL — Samsung Electronics is terminating production of its troubled Galaxy Note 7 smartphone, according to a person familiar with the decision, in a major and embarrassing about-face for the South Korean electronics giant.

> In a statement filed with the country’s stock exchange late Tuesday, Samsung said it had made a “final decision” to stop production. That means the company will no longer produce or market the smartphone, said the person, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because Samsung did not publicly disclose further information about the decision.

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FYI: HN has a recent feature where there's a link labeled "web" under the article link, which brings you to a web search.

Clicking the first result will bypass the paywall.

In other threads (as of yesterday), people claimed that this wasn't working for them. Still works for me, though.

Sometimes it works for me, sometimes it doesn't.

WSJ should not be classified as having an easily-bypassable paywall.

Sorry, where is that? Cannot see at all and the link in the title sends me to the paywall.

Thanks.

You have to go to the comments page for a link, and then you'll see it just below the main link.

Thanks, I had never seen it.

How does that even work?

Most paywalls check the request referral and let it through when it comes from the big search engines. This ensures they will remain listed and hence relevant.

It's a by-product of the broken paywall model. Sites want to protect their content, but they still want traffic to their site. Checking that the referrer is a search engine is a weird middle-way workaround.

Just use a referer switcher like Referer Control on Chrome.

Not anymore, that was true once, but doesn't work for me anymore (Germany).

Works for me. Also from Germany here.

Incognito mode does the trick.

Just VPNed into a German ISP and it worked for me. Are you using a plugin that blocks the referrer?

Paywalls only have to allow you visit their site 3 times a day for free if you come from google [0]. It might not work because you have visited more then 3 articles already today. Deleting your cookies or entering the private mode of your browser should do the trick, though.

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I haven’t visited their site at all in the entire past week.

It doesn't work on mobile. Please stop linking to WSJ.

Exactly the same thoughts as me https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12683017

For folks who can't get past the paywalls that bypass themselves for google searches and google news: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/referer-control/hn...

Let's discuss paywalled articles and their place on HN? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12683017

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