Hacker News Reader

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

In comments, it's ok to ask how to read an article and to help other users do so. But please don't post complaints about paywalls. Those are off topic.

Most paywalls are trivial to bypass with a new browser profile or deleting cookies or disabling JavaScript. Some like the WSJ paywall can be bypassed using archive sites like archive.is, archive.org or outline.com. For example:

https://archive.is/20200720034756/https://www.wsj.com/articl...

Because there's no rule against it, a significant enough minority do have (perhaps corporate network-wide) subscriptions, and the paywalls can often be bypassed anyway for those that don't.

If you're not paying to read it, someone else is paying to have you read it.

And if you are paying to read it, someone else is still paying to have you read it.