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Re:Blendle: Pay-per-article journalism platform that refunds... by 2758252047 on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @11:20AM (#11345259)
Would there be any method for detecting if an article is available through Blendle when you hit a pay wall article through normal web browsing (eg from a Hacker News link) or I guess this would need to be something the websites implement themselves.
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Re:Blendle: Pay-per-article journalism platform that refunds... by detaro on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @11:59AM (#11345602)
Could be build as a browser extension. Match URL against a list of publications, if the user clicks a button redirect to blendle to check if the specific page is available. (2 stages/manual step to avoid sending every URL you visit to blendle)
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Re:Blendle: Pay-per-article journalism platform that refunds... by alexandernl on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @03:44PM (#11347600)
We're currently doing experiments integrating with publishers paywalls on their own sites. More here: www.mondaynote.com/2015/10/18/blendles-secret-weapon-its-toolkit-22/
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Re:Blendle: Pay-per-article journalism platform that refunds... by gpvos on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @06:42PM (#11348874)
Several Dutch sites have a "read on Blendle" link next to their own signup link on their paywall. It's an extra click, but good enough for me.
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