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Are you sure? Your link also lands me at an auth required splash page.

If you have uBlock Origin installed - and if not stop what you're doing right now and install it first (on Firefox, preferably) - you can use the 'zap' function to kill all those annoying login overlays used by the likes of Fbook. Bind the function to a key combination (I use shift-leftAlt-z) and whenever an annoying overlay or other annoying thing appears in a web page you can simply zap it by pressing the key combination and pointing at the offending page element. On Fbook you'll need to zap a number of overlays before you get to the actual page since they layer the annoyance on quite heavily but just persevere and you'll eventually get there.

Thanks, FF fork here with ubo, most lists, and medium settings enabled ... somehow this is not the case for me. I'm not being served a page with any overlays / modals, just this redirect to login page.

I know exactly what you're referring to those "content hovers". Like the substack highlight, sign up overlays on immediate visit, or upsells in shopping cart flows.

Click the `X` on the top-right of the modal to close the login dialogue.

The link in the OP doesn't have that option.

Thanks for the response, somehow this is not the case for me. Like past times, I always hit the walled garden unless it's Facebook's actual Blog pages.

The provided link of https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1015993413146151... redirects me to https://www.facebook.com/login/?next=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.faceb... which is a hard auth page. No modals, no pop-overs, no X / bypass on the redirected page.

I tried the archive.is for content a work around on the share link, also didn't work.

Interesting. I wonder if this is browser-dependent, or something else. I'm on Firefox with uBO with most filter lists enabled.

Turns out VPN source IP is given a different redirect

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