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Damn Paywalls.

I wish there was a service that I could sign up to and it would make all the paywalls go away.

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Well, there is. Or, rather, there are. One per paywall.

There's chrome extensions that do this:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/paywall-bypass/fnm...

Someone is going to have to start up some type of syndicate at some point to make it easy for publishers to put up paywalls and easy for readers to subscribe and unsubscribe to them.

Whoever does that will do pretty well for themselves.

It exists and is called Blendle

I use Blendle, personally find it really good.

Go to the comments, click 'web' on top, open the first link in the resultant google search.

For some reason, they don't paywall access through google, only direct links.

Still Paywalled for me.

Run the web search in an incognito window.

And still paywalled.

Obviously I can't directly see exactly what you're doing, but there's always a way to get to these articles by using the right combination of techniques to appear as a new visitor arriving via a Google search.

Web link from incognito usually seems to do it for most people (it does for me on this occasion, as it always does for me on WSJ), but if that fails perhaps you need to try it from a clean browser instance.

Update: I'm in Australia. It may be different for you depending on what country you're in. Some people get around geographic restrictions by using a VPN or Tor Browser.

Funny detail: search in Google -> OK. Search in Start page -> paywall.

Type "chrome referer control" into Google. The rest is you.

I tried that too and it doesn't work.

You have to set it up.

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