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Comment by BillyTheMage | Hacker News Reader

Finally I'll be able to read posts on HN!

I know it's "against the rules" or "uninteresting" or whatever to comment about this sort of thing on HN posts, but I'm getting real tired of 3/4 of the HN posts being paid bullshit I'm not allowed to read. Even the archived links people post in the comments are inaccessible because CloudFlare.

I fail to see how paid articles adhere to the HN spirit of "interesting discussions" or whatever the exact rule is. These paid articles are more detrimental to "interest" than angry political yelling.

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>Even the archived links people post in the comments are inaccessible because CloudFlare.

Actually it's not caused by cloudflare on two counts: cloudflare actually isn't a source of the captcha, the site author copied cloudflare's captcha page; and the site blocks cloudflare dns users because it doesn't send EDNS information.

> cloudflare actually isn't a source of the captcha, the site author copied cloudflare's captcha page

Why hasn't Cloudflare sued for trademark infringement?

If you look carefully it doesn't have cloudflare's logo or claim it's from cloudflare. It just vaguely looks like cloudflare's page that most people assume it's the cloudflare captcha.

> I fail to see how paid articles adhere to the HN spirit of "interesting discussions" or whatever the exact rule is. These paid articles are more detrimental to "interest" than angry political yelling.

For probably 90% of the paywalled articles the discussion is interesting even if you don't read the article. First, the discussions often diverge from what is covered in the article. Second, even the parts of the discussion that haven't diverged often include enough context to figure out broadly what the article was saying.

I'm so tired of reading this over and over again.

Do you need/use cloudflare for anything else besides their DNS? If not you can simply switch to https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls/

Many times, some helpful person posts a comment with a link to the same article, sans paywall, on archive.org.

And if they do not, use this bookmarklet

   javascript:void(open('https://archive.today/?run=1&url='+encodeURIComponent(document.location)))

The archive.today method has always worked best for me. I made a Firefox Add-On to do it automatically for sites I encounter regularly: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/surmount/

Use Quad9 DNS

> paid bullshit

Why do you want to read bullshit?

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