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To read the article, just put a period (.) at the end of the domain. Eg. domain.com/article --> domain.com./article

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"One weird trick.." "Developers hate him"

Do you know why does it work?

looks like the JavaScript doesn't run because of CORS

Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at https://www.bloomberg.com/markets/modules/datastrip.json?ver.... (Reason: CORS header ‘Access-Control-Allow-Origin’ missing).

So it only works for sites that depend on (client-side) JS to block the content?

It didn't work for me. Instead it said I'm in private mode and said I should subscribe to keep reading.

I'm using Firefox FWIW.

This https://pastebin.com/UiyghKpq userscript should fix it. I found it few years ago somewhere on reddit. It works on multiple media sites that don't like private mode.

And "Bypass Paywalls" firefox addon removes the need to insert the dot into address.

Try the temporary containers plugin ;-)

Or block javascript for this domain in the chrome settings.

I love hacker news. Thank you for that

or, load it in Firefox, while content is still loading cancel loading, and use reader mode

I normally frown on people who whine about paywalls. Publishers have to make a living, and you are not entitled to access their content for free. But I gotta say, that is a devilishly clever hack.

bloomberg's media business is a giant content marketing play for the terminals themselves (that's why so many of the stories have deep links or whatever to their software)

uMatrix takes care of this paywall too.

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