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A comment on German Kindergarten Campouts Test Helicopter Parents (2015). Parent comment

Re:German Kindergarten Campouts Test Helicopter Parents (2015) by qwertox on Sunday December 17, 2017 @06:23PM (#15948249)
Why does this work?
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Re:German Kindergarten Campouts Test Helicopter Parents (2015) by Zak on Sunday December 17, 2017 @07:55PM (#15948633)
This simulates an outgoing link from an article shared on Facebook. Apparently, the WSJ has chosen not to paywall articles users get to from Facebook shares.

Spoofing the referer header to a google search also has this effect, and I think that's what the bypass extension I linked does.

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Re:German Kindergarten Campouts Test Helicopter Parents (2015) by c22 on Monday December 18, 2017 @01:32AM (#15949880)
It's also what the "web" link on hn lets you do. No crazy add-ons required.
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Re:German Kindergarten Campouts Test Helicopter Parents (2015) by Zak on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @09:21AM (#15960339)
The "web" link does a google search for the headline, which eventually leads to the same result in most cases.
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