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The usual advice of opening in Private Mode doesn't work anymore as a workaround.

I found though one can search for the link in google, then click on it and it will let you in.

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https://github.com/iamadamdev works good in Chrome. I haven't tried Firefox.

Works on Firefox Mobile on Android with uBlock Origin and several other privacy add-ons also installed.

Confirmed on Chrome. Thanks for this!

Sorta unrelated, but has anyone gotten this to work with Quartz News articles? I’ve had little success with trying it to bypass their paywalls.

There’s a link on this page under the title of the article via the word Web that does that for you.

yeah, that is interesting... searching in DuckDuckGo also works

I want to boycott websites that paywall themselves off like that. Hopefully with some more similarly minded people we can get the ball rolling - get Google to honestly enforce their no cloaking policy. Maybe even get HN to de-rank submissions from their domains.

Why? Because you don't want to pay for content?

Because a lot of paywalled content just merely creates the semblance of quality, which leads to less critical thinking amongst its readers. I think there should be exceptions, but paying for clickbait, in my opinion, is rewarding those who create it and incentivizes a lower quality of journalistic integrity.

Here’s a sneaky little hack that really works well. When you like a site’s content enough to want to read it, pay them!

Edit: Why the downvotes? Actually paying for things is a form of disruption!

I don't think anyone wants to read it for its own sake though, rather its something that's been shared and in that context its annoying. Not to mention people aren't exactly interested in subscribing to countless content outlets.

Is anyone working on a meta-level a-la-carte subscription system? Pay 3d party, which grants per-article access to journalist websites at a lower price point than full subscription to any or all of them. Bonus if the system shields identity so as not to allow publisher to personalize ads, etc.

we've been waiting for this for... 20 years? Apple's "news" thing might get the closest, perhaps, but I still have to subscribe to that.

3 different people suggested this story to me (originally from Detroit area, and have had family in Russia for a spell). I'm not subscribing to the whole site for this one story. If I could have paid, say, 15-30c to get it, I would have done so.

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