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Comment by dijit | Hacker News Reader

I would like to read the article, but it seems aggressively paywalled in a manner that appears distinctly akin to those porn-scam redirects that you come across on the internet.

(with the fake notifications from snapchat and tiktok)

I think this is an unfortunate consequence of the heading image of the article.

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I believe that is the point. It's supposed to look like an overwealming barrage of messages

https://archive.ph/3SNw5

Edit: I'm pretty sure those notifications are part of the story. To offer the reader a slice of a 13 y.o. girls existence.

Doesn't help. Mostly blank.

Scroll down a bit, it looks like the archive truncates the above mentioned notifications making it look like dead space.

Seems broken to me on that Archive link (Firefox with uBlock Origin).

Edit: you're right, it's broken and the majority of the article is missing.

Even at the archive link the styling hides most of the text. Firefox Reader mode make it visible.

This is what worked for me, on the original article page (not the archive), using uBlock Origin (uBO):

- In the uBO dashboard, make sure you've selected "I am an advanced user" (which allows you to block specific domains).

- In the uBO UI, click "all" at the top to show all the domains, then block the following domains: meter-svc.nytimes.com and samizdat-graphql.nytimes.com. (Click on the column to the right of the domain name; it should turn red to indicate it's now blocked.)

(You can make these changes permanent by clicking on the lock icon in the uBO UI.)

After reloading the page, I was able to see the entire article.

(Tested in Firefox and Chrome.)

It’s an NYT interactive article emulating phone notifications

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