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I wanted to read this, but not enough to make an account. Whoever is publishing this blog should consider whether a $0 paywall is worthwhile.

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Hey, author of the post here. I can understand your sentiment. Here's a PDF of the article if you don't want to put in your email: https://drive.google.com/file/d/17z3QUpPcWH0HH-QwI8agZIniesI...

You can enter any email and the article instantly unlocks. It doesn’t seem to be an account.

Interesting; by the time i read this i didn't get asked for an email. 7 hours later than your post.

The author has seen the light? :)

Hey! Yeah, I figured out how to turn off my content gate last night soon after their comment. Was never my intention to force people to put in their email who didn’t want to and I love seeing a healthy discussion around the content of the article and not just the headline. That gate is on by default on my newsletter platform so I didn’t think much of it when I originally submitted the link but totally understand why some folks were frustrated.

Use a temp throwaway email service such as mailinator.com

Works most of the time.

I usually put in postmaster@<yourdomain> (e.g. postmaster@heatpumped.org). Eat your own spam, idiot.

Never thought of that, now it will be the first thing I'll try.

Mailinator is great if the website wants you to click a link or enter an OTP to verify whatever it is that they verify.

I usually put in <ceo name>@<major ad / search / social media platform>

You're not alone with this one, don't need another potential source of spam.

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