This paywall product must have required a staggering amount of work. And yet, the entire text of the article is right there in the network tab.
Why send it over the wire, then try to hide it?
Why send it over the wire, then try to hide it?
This is how I open 99% of any links on HN or anywhere else (i.e. wanting to read a news article)(I always open in reader view to avoid menus/columns/ads/etc.)
FWIW I'm a subscriber at least in the main because I want it to exist. Most months I don't read more than I'd get for free anyway. But it's gloriously chewy content of a kind that you can't quite find anywhere else.
Usually when it's that obvious, it's general courtesy not to go pointing it out.
* There's an animation hiding it.
* If you disable javascript, the content doesn't load.
* Copying is disabled.
* There's some kind of javascript function constantly toggling state so that if you right-click inspect, the content div collapses before you can further unroll it.
Someone really wanted users to see the article, then watch it disappear, and make them feel a sense of loss.
Once the manager wasn't able to see the text whoever did this was able to click "done" on the ticket and move on.