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

Re:How paywalled sites permit access to visitors from social... by yalooze on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @08:26AM (#14795937)

This bookmarklet works too: javascript:location.href='http://facebook.com/l.php?u='+location.href

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Re:How paywalled sites permit access to visitors from social... by gruez on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @10:03AM (#14796553)

    javascript:location.href='http://facebook.com/l.php?u='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)

encodeURIComponent because there might be special characters

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Re:How paywalled sites permit access to visitors from social... by dTal on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @02:50PM (#14799055)

In exchange for Facebook tracking, and potentially intercepting and modifying, every page you look at this way.

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Re:How paywalled sites permit access to visitors from social... by lrem on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @03:52PM (#14799510)

Which, for many people, will be preferable to the obvious alternative way to get through the pay wall...

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Re:How paywalled sites permit access to visitors from social... by bigbugbag on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @07:05AM (#14803420)

Actually it is not, but most people lack the knowledge and understanding to care enough.

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