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Comment by hellofunk | Hacker News Reader

I'm always amazed how I end up seeing long threads from HN users who read an article, but when I click on it, there is a pay wall. Are all those readers subscribers to these news sites?

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If you hit the "web" button, you can usually bypass the wall. I was able to read the article just fine, even though I don't have a subscription.

"Simultaneous consumption" is one of my new favourite phrases, actually.

On Firefox with uBlock Origin and I could read the whole article without any extra steps. And also yes, I agree, this post only has a few comments but others that have more and require a form of subscription to continue reading make me feel the same way.

I use the private mode of a browser to get around article limits.

Most of the sites show their content to archiving services. If you go to archive.is and enter the URL, you'll see the content.

Thanks, I wasn't aware of this.

Economist works with JS disabled

I use Brave browser on Android and can see whole article.

While there are ways to get around the paywall, the Economist is probably one of the few publications I’d say is absolutely worth paying for.

That said - a lot of folks have access to sites like NYT and WSJ through work.

Incognito mode is also a good bypass for N articles per month type paywalls.

Very good to know, thanks. I tried it and indeed you are correct.

https://www.economist.com/news/christmas-specials/21636612-t...

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:/...

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