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I really enjoyed reading the article until this pop-up of “why we need your support” not only it blocked half my screen, but it also spoiled that attention I was giving to the article. These Jimmy Wales style of donations demand must be rethought, it’s too intrusive.

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My approach is just to close the tab at that point. There are already more articles on the web and in print than I'll ever manage to read, and the content will probably be available elsewhere anyway.

Maybe it's a pipe dream, but my hope is that if enough people close browser tabs in reaction to rude behaviour, it'll start to show up on analytics.

That’s exactly what I did! Though I wish that interruption didn’t take place and I continued my enjoyment of reading that article

this trick helps https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https%...

alternative one https://web.archive.org/web/20230825073946/https://aeon.co/e...

Thanks, I don’t think I am willing to trade that pop-up inconvenience with my privacy offered to Googles by going through their cache. But yes I more than happy to use Archive.org. Did you have to copy the url, submitted it to archive.org to get the free access version? Or is there another secret flow I am missing?

So normally you could prefix the URL with archive.today/... (which is not related to archive.org, but a separate paywall-bypassing site). However in this case it appears the site is blocking archive.today, see: https://archive.today/https://aeon.co/essays/why-the-empty-a...

i had trouble using archive.is because the article redirected to a deleted url

somebody already submitted the page to waybackmachine, but they have a save page now here https://web.archive.org/save/

You can use the wayback machine extension to quickly open the latest archived version. If it's not already archived, you can also quickly trigger the process.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wayback-machine/fp...

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