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Comment by orangepenguin | Hacker News Reader

I feel a little sad that pay-walled articles make it to the top of HN. I'm sure the article is interesting, but a lot of us can't actually read it.

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Here's a bookmarklet I use sometimes:

  javascript:window.location.href='https://m.facebook.com/l.php?u='+encodeURIComponent(window.location.href);

Why does that even work? I get technically what is going on - WSJ see the link as having been referred from Facebook. But why does the WSJ display the content for free to somebody that seems to be coming from Facebook yet look for a subscription for direct access (or from a Google search result referral) .

That looks pretty handy. I'm at work (maybe I shouldn't be on HN at all, haha...) and Facebook is blocked. But I guess that's my problem. :) I'll check it out when I get home.

not working for me, unfortunately

Dude... you are a g

Real LPT in the comments!

This isn't reddit. Keep that meme-y crap out of here.

There's a workaround: submit the article to archive.is.

http://archive.is/d8LTZ

I didn't come up with this trick, but unfortunately I forgot who donated it.

Maybe me. ;-) I've been suggesting it for a while. It works wonders and has worked every time I've tried it.

It seems likely that they know about this backdoor and have opted to allow it. They must surely know the IO addresses associated with archive.is and have yet to make any effort to block then.

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