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Can we get a little link below the title that opens links up in a non pay walled link? You can't even read the first sentence of this article.

These paywall things are such a bane... I do have a registration at Bloomberg from work, but I get logged out of the website so frequently that it's basically faster to read from a paywall bypass. This is absurd.

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

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

The paywall workaround doesn't work, I get stuck in an infinite captcha loop. I'll now be told to inspect my DNS settings, which is a step too far in terms of bypass. IMO the article ought to be flagged.

No paywall workaround works for everybody unfortunately. They're there for the ones they work for.

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Is this a new thing? Because I love this.

stubbed around for a while https://hn.algolia.com/?q=by%3Adang+stub

Has anyone else the problem that they get endless captchas and no way to use archive.ph? Or maybe knows a solution.

Edit: This is on Firefox and with uBlock Origin only. It works with the same setup in my VM however.

Edit2: Changing DNS (to NextDNS in my case) worked.

Don't use 1.1.1.1 from Cloudflare, disable the Cloudflare resolver in Firefox, or turn off Private Relay on Apple+/iOS. Those are the usual suspects.

Huh, that was it. Changing to NextDNS already works. That's a weird one. Thank you for your suggestion!

Archive.is and Cloudflare have a long-standing feud over EDNS Client Subnet support. Archive.is refuses to serve Cloudflare DNS users and Cloudflare refuses to work around it.

Yes... this has been a problem for a while now for a lot of people.

I have that problem but it probably some something to do with some combination of browser addons I have installed. When I launch the link in a Private Firefox window they seem to work.

Weirdly, this only happens for me in Chrome despite using the same extensions there that I use in Firefox. I initially fixed the problem in both browsers by switching my DNS provider from Cloudflare to Quad9 (which also noticeably improved network performance more than I'd ever expect a change in DNS provider to do so), but then the problem returned in Chrome, and since Firefox is my daily driver, I haven't bothered to figure out why just yet.

Originally, it had something to do with how Archive.today handles Cloudflare's EDNS configuration. Now, though, it appears that it might be caused by something else.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive.today#Cloudflare_DNS_a...

That's just one more vector for targeted spam and illicit data collection. I prefer to keep my exposure to a minimum.

Assuming you’re interested enough in the content to actually care about subscribing, using single-purpose email aliases is the best way to handle these two problems. For the rare thing I want to subscribe to, I have a unique email and tuned subscription preferences. I can turn off the email if I’m done with the content and not worry about trying to figure out how to cancel the sub.

How do you generate so many email addresses? Host your own domain?

Yes, in my case, but also fastmail includes unlimited @fastmail.com email addresses, delivered to your normal inbox, and can even be generated on the fly by password managers like Bitwarden.

> but also fastmail includes unlimited @fastmail.com email addresses

On aliases, the limit is 600. Maybe you mean the recently added masked emails. The limit on those is not documented, but rumor says it's 1,000.[1]

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/fastmail/comments/t68eiw/comment/hz...

I used to do this, but it started causing a lot of problems when I needed to talk to customer support, especially the surprisingly numerous companies which still store email addresses as an immutable record of account identity.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38294034.

How does a paywalled article jump to the top so quickly?

edit: it appears that paywall articles are ok per dang, apologies for the noise

You can get his newsletter for free via email, which everyone should do.

...assumes that people's complaint with paywalls is about paying money, and does not answer the question.

Quite. He’s the best writer in his field, and one of the best commentators on any topic full stop.

Bloomberg and Matt Levine together help with antigravity.

Didn't know it was paywalled, since I use "Bypass Paywalls Clean"[0].

[0] https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean

Ooh, this is wonderful! Thanks!

Only if there are workarounds; otherwise not (see https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...).

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

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