How paywalled sites permit access to visitors from social media sites and apps

Re:How paywalled sites permit access to visitors from social... by NKCSS on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @02:15AM (#14794566)

    if (details.url.includes(url)) {

So, if I want to detect if you have this plugin installed, I load an image with ?plugin-test=wsj.com as any part in the url can have it to trigger.

Might want to improve this...

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Re:How paywalled sites permit access to visitors from social... by NKCSS on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @07:08PM (#14800755)

If you add this to the manifest "permissions" section and go to http://pbb.nkcss.com/ you can see it's easily detected:

    "http://pbb.nkcss.com/*"

And if I can do it in a few minutes, I'm sure those who have a paywall can do so as well.

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