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Comment by spicyj | Hacker News Reader

Paywall-less:

http://www.google.com/url?q=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB...

Thanks. I didn't realize the link would be an issue. I think I came across it by way of Google News, so it probably had magic referer stuff going on.

And that's a handy redirection tool, too.

Does this redirect work with all of WSJ articles? Nice.

Nice indeed... Does anyone know if there is a browser plugin (pref. Chrome) to bypass the paywalls of popular sites?

This is a bookmarklet rather than a plugin, but just as good: http://mattbusse.com/bypass-the-wall-street-journal-paywall-...

Or, if you don't mind losing the layout, this bookmarklet will get you directly to the "mobile" version of the article without the intermediate click through Google: http://www.labnol.org/internet/read-wall-street-journal-arti...

Appending http://www.google.com/url?q= to the URL seems to be the key. Seems to be working fine.

Yeah, I might put together a browser plugin that does that to the current page URL when I hit a button!

Voilà bookmarklet; should work on all WSJ articles (and ones from other sites that also remove the wall for Google inbound links, I suppose):

javascript:window.location="http://www.google.com/url?q=+escape(window.location);

Awesome. Thanks.

BreakthePaywall! is a free add-on for Internet Explorer (Firefox coming soon!) that simplifies using the various methods for circumventing website paywall restrictions. http://www.breakthepaywall.com

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