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Comment by Sloppy | Hacker News Reader

Thanks.

Why are paywalled posts left or even allowed on HN? I'm sure there are other sources of this exact content. I have nothing against paywalling unique content, just don't expect me to buy a subscription just to blab about it here.

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If there's a workaround, it's ok. Users usually post workarounds in the thread.

This is in the FAQ at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html and there's more explanation here:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37341479.

The usual workaround, as I've discussed with you in comments and via email, is far less tractable and has been for weeks:

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37148681>

“Paywalled” isn’t black and white. In this case, the article doesn’t seem to be paywalled when accessed from outside the US, and from within the US reader mode also works. In other cases you may have a limited number of article views free per month. In that case, one can clear cookies/local storage to reset, or use a private browser window/tab.

HN has promoted stories just like all other big corporate media sites. You can usually see them languishing in the list with very few comments, people are great at identifying and skipping inline ads disguised as legitimate content. Every single day there are at least a dozen of these stories here.

National Geographic is owned by Disney, news-tainment with a social mission.

No doubt plenty of publications are trying to promote their content on HN, but it's our job (the mods, the software, and the community) to make that not happen, except when the articles are genuinely interesting, in which case they belong here.

I think Brajeshwar is a legit HN user and not a stealth agent for Disney.

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