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Comment by echelon | Hacker News Reader

What's a paywall technique that works now? I tried googling the article title, but that failed.

If it's an article about research, you can always find the original paper or at least the abstract: https://thehumananimalbond.com/publication-media/. I usually find the news articles about them don't have much more value than letting me know a new study exists, and in fact they often misunderstand the research and overstate the conclusion.

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/710513549349552128?lang=en

On a secondary note, if you are on firefox, before the page loads you can click on "reader mode" works on most sites.

If that fails you can even type about:reader?url= into the adress bar yourself and append the URL of the page you want to load in reader mode.

Paying

Sure, let me get my credit card real quick to pay for the article about how dogs move in synchrony with their family members. I‘m sure most of the readers here have subscriptions for nytimes and 100+ other publications.

They asked for a paywall technique that works. Paying always works.

Nytimes and a few other subscriptions, yes.

Sounds like you're not interested enough to pay for it, which is fine. You're not required to read it, you're not entitled to read it, and you can move on from FOMO.

It's fine to miss out. It's fine to not read content. It's fine to not want to pay for a publication if you're fine with not accessing it.

> It's fine to miss out

Oh, I thought I was required to read this specific article. You saved me a yearly subscription, I was about to click on „buy with your second newborn“ when I read your comment. Thanks!

I don't want it injected into my stream, then. It's a virus.

The New York Times is arguably the nations newspaper of record (more Californians subscribe to the NYTimes than New Yorkers). I’d expect lots of people who value being well read to have subscriptions.

The NYTimes has 7 million subscribers per the NYTimes: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/05/business/media/nyt-earnin...

A safe bet is to assume that someone doesn't have a NYTimes subscription, no matter how much they value being well read.

A lot of well-read people don’t give money to the NYT out of principle.

> more Californians subscribe to the NYTimes than New Yorkers

This is saying more about the political affinities of both Californians and NY Times than about the quality of the newspaper.

Well judging on the comments the people who pay are morons. Want to discuss this e mail I received with a lot of misspellings?"

https://archive.is/8THWO

In most cases, they already serve the entire content to the browser and just put a paywall overlay on top. It’s usually trivial to remove the overlay in a desktop browser by inspecting the source. You may also need to enable scrolling with css if it was disabled.

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