Yahoo Triples Estimate of Breached Accounts to 3B

Re:Yahoo Triples Estimate of Breached Accounts to 3B by orangepenguin on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @05:08PM (#15396215)

I feel a little sad that pay-walled articles make it to the top of HN. I'm sure the article is interesting, but a lot of us can't actually read it.

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Re:Yahoo Triples Estimate of Breached Accounts to 3B by mattbeckman on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @05:12PM (#15396253)

Here's a bookmarklet I use sometimes:

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

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Re:Yahoo Triples Estimate of Breached Accounts to 3B by PMan74 on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @05:26AM (#15399219)

Why does that even work? I get technically what is going on - WSJ see the link as having been referred from Facebook. But why does the WSJ display the content for free to somebody that seems to be coming from Facebook yet look for a subscription for direct access (or from a Google search result referral) .

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Re:Yahoo Triples Estimate of Breached Accounts to 3B by orangepenguin on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @05:16PM (#15396287)

That looks pretty handy. I'm at work (maybe I shouldn't be on HN at all, haha...) and Facebook is blocked. But I guess that's my problem. :) I'll check it out when I get home.

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Re:Yahoo Triples Estimate of Breached Accounts to 3B by dstaten on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @05:38PM (#15396433)

not working for me, unfortunately

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Re:Yahoo Triples Estimate of Breached Accounts to 3B by jakenberg on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @05:23PM (#15396329)

Dude... you are a g

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Re:Yahoo Triples Estimate of Breached Accounts to 3B by derwiki on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @05:31PM (#15396379)

Real LPT in the comments!

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Re:Yahoo Triples Estimate of Breached Accounts to 3B by Sohcahtoa82 on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @05:49PM (#15396513)

This isn't reddit. Keep that meme-y crap out of here.

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Re:Yahoo Triples Estimate of Breached Accounts to 3B by sillysaurus3 on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @05:22PM (#15396325)

There's a workaround: submit the article to archive.is.

http://archive.is/d8LTZ

I didn't come up with this trick, but unfortunately I forgot who donated it.

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Re:Yahoo Triples Estimate of Breached Accounts to 3B by KGIII on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @06:42PM (#15396829)

Maybe me. ;-) I've been suggesting it for a while. It works wonders and has worked every time I've tried it.

It seems likely that they know about this backdoor and have opted to allow it. They must surely know the IO addresses associated with archive.is and have yet to make any effort to block then.

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