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i personally prefer the l.php workaround as it preserves the site layout and formatting

Alternative: If you're on Firefox, this addon automatically adds "Facebook" to the referer so you can bypass the FT and WSJ paywalls

How do publishers feel about this?

Same way they feel about this [1], they are simply unaware.

That doesn't work for the Wall Street Journal any more, and hasn't for a year: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-05/wsj-ends-...

I don't question your source but my personal experience is that it still consistently works. It works just now in fact.