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Re:How Uber Backers Orchestrated Kalanick’s Ouster as CEO by vesrah on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @09:24PM (#14609455)
Non-paywall version?
Re:How Uber Backers Orchestrated Kalanick’s Ouster as CEO by tchen on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @10:09PM (#14609623)
Re:How Uber Backers Orchestrated Kalanick’s Ouster as CEO by ericleung on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @09:29PM (#14609483)
You can do the same trick that used to work with Google, but with Facebook instead. Search the text of the title in Facebook and follow the link through.

Could also probably modify some header or something to achieve the same thing.

Re:How Uber Backers Orchestrated Kalanick’s Ouster as CEO by thefreeman on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @09:48PM (#14609553)
You also may have to clear your browser storage (for wsj.com) if you've already visited it from this link or google.
Re:How Uber Backers Orchestrated Kalanick’s Ouster as CEO by dhruvkar on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @09:46PM (#14609545)
Same can be done with twitter search.
Re:How Uber Backers Orchestrated Kalanick’s Ouster as CEO by jcsnv on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @09:31PM (#14609492)
Thank you, TIL!
Re:How Uber Backers Orchestrated Kalanick’s Ouster as CEO by Overtonwindow on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @09:57PM (#14609583)
Get Brave, it works very well.
Re:How Uber Backers Orchestrated Kalanick’s Ouster as CEO by _dark_matter_ on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @10:07PM (#14609618)
It is still blocked in Brave.
Re:How Uber Backers Orchestrated Kalanick’s Ouster as CEO by Overtonwindow on Thursday June 22, 2017 @09:12AM (#14611959)
Ah I was meaning to say use Brave as it will by pass adblock walls.
Re:How Uber Backers Orchestrated Kalanick’s Ouster as CEO by Overtonwindow on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @09:32PM (#14609495)
Also if you run into an adblock-wall, use Brave, it can skip around most of those.
Re:How Uber Backers Orchestrated Kalanick’s Ouster as CEO by gnicholas on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @10:50PM (#14609793)
FYI, the WSJ recently launched a partnership with my startup, which gives our users free access to unlimited WSJ content. Our app and Chrome extension are free also.

www.ReadAcrossTheAisle.com

Re:How Uber Backers Orchestrated Kalanick’s Ouster as CEO by narsil on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @11:05PM (#14609848)
It appears the extension would like to read and change the data on any website I visit. I assume users are the product here, so this appears somewhat sketchy since I'm not sure what personal data of mine is being sold.
Re:How Uber Backers Orchestrated Kalanick’s Ouster as CEO by gnicholas on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @11:36PM (#14609961)
Perfectly reasonable response, but we are actually not doing anything with individual user data, and we have no plans to do so. We don't even have any plans to do anything with aggregate user data, though we might eventually do that.

The reason that permissions are needed is that the extension monitors how long you read on each website. But that data never leaves your computer — it's just used to compute the stats we show you in your dashboard.

Read Across The Aisle is related to my main startup, BeeLine Reader, and it was just something we did for fun, and to help with polarization of news consumption.

Re:How Uber Backers Orchestrated Kalanick’s Ouster as CEO by loxias on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @10:59PM (#14609826)
This is great news, I was just thinking that I was annoyed at their paywall... What's the catch?
Re:How Uber Backers Orchestrated Kalanick’s Ouster as CEO by gnicholas on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @11:30PM (#14609938)
There is literally no catch. I just launched this as an offshoot from my main startup, and I have no plans for direct monetizing of Read Across The Aisle. The only way that I benefit is that this app raises awareness for my other startup.

See my response to a sister comment for more details!

Re:How Uber Backers Orchestrated Kalanick’s Ouster as CEO by majewsky on Thursday June 22, 2017 @07:17AM (#14611380)
But why would the WSJ consent to this? I find it exceedingly hard to believe that they don't get anything in return.
Re:How Uber Backers Orchestrated Kalanick’s Ouster as CEO by gnicholas on Thursday June 22, 2017 @10:37AM (#14612517)
Branding, I think? They also get access to our across-the-aisle user base, so it's possible they're not losing too much revenue with the partnership.

To be honest, I've been surprised at the interest this project had received from major media companies. We actually were almost acquired by a large media company that wanted to build a new brand and put Read Across The Aisle as a central part of it.

Re:How Uber Backers Orchestrated Kalanick’s Ouster as CEO by alphast0rm on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @11:54PM (#14610024)
You can add this as a bookmark to circumvent the paywall (remove the parentheses in https though, works with WSJ/NYT/etc.):

  window.location.href='http(s)://m.facebook.com/l.php?u='+encodeURIComponent(window.location.href);