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Can some kind soul provide the body of the text for us poor souls or instructions for how to access the article? No luck with the web button or outline.com.

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Add ?mod=rsswn to the end of WSJ urls

(e.g. https://www.wsj.com/articles/always-on-work-culture-creating... )

Nice trick!

I don't really see why it's okay to submit paywalled articles to HN to begin with. Either a) someone finds an open source for it, which the OP should've done instead or b) only a small subset of the users can actually access the content being discussed.

> I don't really see why it's okay to submit paywalled articles to HN to begin with.

Why? I would probably haven't found this article if not on HN.

I find the paywalls on NYT and WSJ a bit bizzare to begin with, especially now that they're closing the loopholes to read an article now and then. Certainly any business has the right to charge for its content, but as newsrooms have shrunk and journalists have been retrained for the clickbait era, these articles are typically worthless fluff or outrage porn. Though I can't actually read this article, I assume that the catchy title references a breif moment from an interview, not a deep cultural analysis. I would pay for the latter, but not the former.

I’ve never seen a NYT paywall in Australia. Maybe it’s geo specific?

> I assume that the catchy title references a breif moment from an interview, not a deep cultural analysis.

That assumption is correct.

I suspect it is a result of being afraid of cannabalising their subscription base and internal disputes between philosophies. I suspect the paywall leaks are a left hand vs right hand thing - if they make it fully accessible they get maximium click traffic but the boss gets pissed off about "giving money away". If they make it fully sealed Webspiders can't get there and this kills the traffic.

I will just go ahead and carry on the tradition, as it was smacked onto me the last time I complained about a paywall:

The FAQ ( https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html ) states clearly that paywalls are ok.

No matter how much we hate them, apparently.

Should we limit our discussions of software to only free software, or not discuss Apple’s new laptops until they are giving them away? Or is journalism the only thing that you feel deserves this treatment?

If the links dont work for you why not flag them?

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