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Comment by Sytten | Hacker News Reader

[Unrelated to the topic] Not sure if HN should allow articles that are behind a pay wall like WSJ. Thought?

It is a bit annoying, but you can click the "web" link right underneath the title, which sends you to a google search of the title [1]. Clicking the WSJ result gives you a paywall bypass.

[1]https://www.google.com/search?q=The%20Boss%20Who%20Banned%20...

Not working for me, but maybe depends on the country of the request?

I believe this happens if you've already visited a link to the article (that's what happened to me). Try opening a private browser session, paste in the google link and click through to the article and it should bypass correctly (it worked for me!) :)

This comes up every time someone posts to WSJ.

They have relevant and interesting articles so the real solution is buy a subscriptions or use one of the many workarounds.

Outline works well:

https://outline.com/www.wsj.com/articles/can-you-handle-it-b...

I was not referring only to WSJ.

I don't believe it is realistic to expect people to pay for every pay wall that exists.

Thanks for the link though, I will use it.

I may not subscribe to everything, but I need to see the links to the content behind the paywalls to help me decide which to subscribe to.

> I don't believe it is realistic to expect people to pay for every pay wall that exists.

I don't either, but most paywalls are porous.

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