Hacker News Reader

Thanks, that does work. Though I still feel a little funny about jumping through a bunch of weird hoops to read news articles.

Wow, I don't even have a facebook account and that works. That feels like some XSS waiting to happen :/

It's an open redirect, not XSS. It's a matter of debate whether an open redirect is a vulnerability or not.

In case anyone's still here, I made a bookmarklet for it:

Make a bookmark with that, call it I'm from Facebook or something, and go to it when you hit a paywall.

This trick is the only thing that seems to bypass WSJ paywall now