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I don't like the fact that mainstream publications (NYT, WSJ, Grauniad) show up on HN this often, especially the paywalled ones, but at this point just have your browser forge referrals for WSJ and always tell it you're coming from Google.

There's refcontrol[1] for Firefox. There are other options for Chrome[2].

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/En-us/firefox/addon/refcontrol/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9531941

I'm curious as to why people on HN upvote WSJ stories so much. The WSJ version of this story has more upvotes than other publications. Do the HN readers who upvote this paywalled stuff actually pay for WSJ subscriptions?

It's because "people on HN" is not a monolithic group.

Many more people on HN upvote WSJ stories over similar stories on other publications. So "people on HN" is accurate, as it appears to reflect the majority opinion here.

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