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If there's a workaround, it's ok. Users usually post workarounds in the thread—and did in this one.

This is in the FAQ at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html and there's more explanation here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

I don’t believe a workaround had been posted at the time I posted. I also attempted to try outline, but got an error on their site for the URL (something along the lines of url not valid for outline).

Is hn open source? If so, I’d love to try and contribute something perhaps that would allow users to filter out stories with a user-managed url blacklist. Seems like a reasonably simple solution. Any thoughts?

Thanks for the info regardless; I’ll refrain from complaining about paywalls from here on out (although, to be fair, this wasn’t a blanket complaint about paywalls; I’d asked if there was some type of filter I didn’t know about and proposed a possible solution).

I wrote a simple chrome extension which maintains a list of domains that you don’t like visiting, and then checks the DOM on pageload and makes links to those light grey. Super unpolished, I just made it for my own use, but it’s been nice - helps me avoid accidentally visiting obnoxious news/clickbait/etc sites.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/antibookmark/pobgf...

If you want to give it a try.

Very cool - will check it out. Many thanks!

Two ways:

1. Look at the domain. If it says "WSJ", don't click.

2. Accept the fact that there are people on HN who pay for WSJ, BusinessWeek, NY Times, etc. (as I do). These people like to read and comment on articles that are professionally written, edited, and fact-checked, despite having to pay for them. If this isn't what you want, that's OK. Let those who do prefer this sort of journalism read and comment on it without chiming in about the fact that it's not "free."

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