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Comment by kareemm | Hacker News Reader

Is it just me or is this article also paywalled for you when you click web => WSJ article? If so, is there another way to read it other than paying for a subscription? I don't read the WSJ often enough to justify subscribing.

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Just replace "wsj.com" with "fullwsj.com"

https://www.fullwsj.com/articles/whats-the-rush-the-power-of...

This does the FB redirect trick but still forwards to the partial WSJ article.

Open the FB Redirect page in an Incognito/Private browsing session to deal with that. Note that the FB page itself needs to be in the private browsing session, that way the referral data gets passed when you click on the WSJ link.

https://outline.com/7WuvGD

WSJ removed Google users' access to articles, so the web link doesn't work for them anymore.

Now the only way to view a WSJ article for free is if you're referred through Facebook, I believe.

Most of the time what I do is go to outline.com. Paste the link into the box and read the article just fine.

What is outline.com?

it's a free service that allows you to bypass some paywalls like nytimes, wapo, and wsj. it strips out everything but the text.

I've just tried accessing through fb-referred link and got the same paywalled view.

Damn, looks like they've gone full paywall.

If you go to https://www.drudgereport.com/ then right click one of the hyperlinks and select Inspect you can change the URL in the HTML to the URL for this article. When you click the link you will be able to read the full article as WSJ whitelists drudge report.

If you're willing to pay a small fee, you can sign up for blendle, and WSJ articles are 50 cents a piece through them.

This is great. Why haven't I heard of Blendle before?

Link: https://launch.blendle.com

The web links work for me when you copy them to an Incognito tab.

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