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Comment by donohoe | Hacker News Reader

But the number of AMP versions is dwindling as Google is no longer forcing it.

Yep. And the browser vendor can make changes to DevTools, archive.ph is already privacy-unfriendly and blocked in some countries, it could disappear, 12ft.io could disappear, and so on.

The fact that seems least likely to change is that most "paywalls" rely on Javascript, CSS or some other "feature" of so-called "modern" web browsers.

I have lost count of how many times an HN comment alleges "paywalled" in a thread and I am reading the article just like any other because I am not using a graphical web browser. I would not even know there was a "paywall". Paywalls have dependencies.

My 25 year old knowledge of lynx has come in handy too!

While I’m sure some combination of plugins can do it, Tor is another go-to for me for paywall avoision.

Too bad violoncello is no longer available in the iOS App Store.

My lynx is always at the ready for paywalls and other annoyances. My guess is that showing up using such an archaic tool implies you might also be using a screen reader setting like blynx [1]. The more thoughtful sites will even give you a link to jump directly to content from the top...

[1] http://leb.net/blinux/blynx/

Lynx was a program I used on the early www. In the early 2000s I moved on to something better. Without much effort anyone can have a static binary with better HTML table rendering that is significantly smaller than today's lynx.

   readelf -d links

   There is no dynamic section in this file.

   stat -c '%s' /usr/bin/lynx links
   1894400
   1276712

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