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Comment by apsec112 | Hacker News Reader

Is there a non-paywalled version?

Can we petition for HN to block paywalled and ad-riddled content? As it is there's an incentive to spam paywalled content around social media websites to earn yourself more money.

Additional point: we can't have a balanced community discussion if only a small percentage of viewers have access to the full article. This is a community website, so we should favor content that is openly shareable.

Re paywalls: 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

The converse is also true: if there's not a workaround, it's not ok.

Is there a link to an unpaywalled version?

As far as I know, there is no workaround in this case.

Well Mr. Dang, we've got a new edge case for you lol: An article with substantive content before the paywall, but that doesn't have any workarounds for the rest of the article. I would love to be proven wrong, but AFAICT we'd need a subscriber to this particular person's Substack to host a version for us.

Yes, that was my point as well.

The blind hatred of paywalled content is exactly how we ended up with an ad-riddled shitty internet.

> Additional point: we can't have a balanced community discussion if only a small percentage of viewers have access to the full article

It's pretty common on non-paywalled articles for only a small percentage to read the article, yet we often manage to have balanced discussions of those.

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