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Re:Twelve Days in Xinjiang: How China’s Surveillance State O... by mnw21cam on Thursday December 21, 2017 @06:44AM (#15978094)
Assuming "FB" means Facebook, what if one doesn't have a Facebook account?
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Re:Twelve Days in Xinjiang: How China’s Surveillance State O... by Deathmax on Thursday December 21, 2017 @06:52AM (#15978136)
Or manually use FB's redirect:

https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https://www.wsj.com/articles/...

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Re:Twelve Days in Xinjiang: How China’s Surveillance State O... by mnw21cam on Thursday December 21, 2017 @08:00AM (#15978444)
Nope - paywall still present.
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Re:Twelve Days in Xinjiang: How China’s Surveillance State O... by karpodiem on Thursday December 21, 2017 @08:30AM (#15978578)
Worked for me, I use Facebook though (may not work if you do not have a Facebook account?)
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Re:Twelve Days in Xinjiang: How China’s Surveillance State O... by icebraining on Thursday December 21, 2017 @10:13AM (#15979255)
Worked for me too, and I don't have an FB account.

mnw21cam, maybe you're blocking the Referer?

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Re:Twelve Days in Xinjiang: How China’s Surveillance State O... by thg on Thursday December 21, 2017 @07:12AM (#15978249)
If you're browsing with Firefox, the "Bypass Paywalls" Add-on is really neat. No further workarounds necessary.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bypasspaywall...

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Re:Twelve Days in Xinjiang: How China’s Surveillance State O... by vixen99 on Thursday December 21, 2017 @09:29AM (#15978926)
Presumably publications like the WSJ know about these bypasses and tolerate them unlike the The UK Daily Telegraph which doesn't for its 'premium' articles. However how is using them on a regular basis not fraudulent?
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Re:Twelve Days in Xinjiang: How China’s Surveillance State O... by thg on Friday December 22, 2017 @04:17AM (#15986232)
If I were a regular WSJ reader, I'd subscribe, but I'm only reading the occasional WSJ article that's linked here on HN. Having the Add-On bypass it is more convenient than using the FB redirect snipplet and that's about it. If the WSJ doesn't want any non-subscribers to read their articles, then it's on them not to provide exceptions (FB referrer).

For me, it boils down to reading between 1-3 WSJ articles a month by bypassing the paywall or reading none at all if they don't allow me to, since I don't consider the consumption worth the price (which includes handing over data to a US corporation) I'd have to pay. That money is better spent on a local news outlet that provides me with news I consider more relevant to myself.

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