Well, I just found my new favorite extension.

This should be the article linked. Mods can you switch, the current one behind a subscription wall?

It's ok to post workarounds in the threads, but we don't change the official URLs to those. Doing that would obscure the article source, among other reasons.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989

Hi dang. I really do not understand why it is ok to post pay-walled articles. It makes the frontpage a minefield IMHO. Maybe a short reason can also be stated in the FAQ in addition to that being ok. BTW, is it also ok to post articles behind a registration-wall? I mean, like something shared on FB which can only be viewed by members?

It's explained in the second link there as well as tons of comments I've posted about this (https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...).

We find the paywalls as annoying as anyone, but as long as there are publicly available workarounds, the articles remain accessible at the price of annoyance. This sucks, of course, but an HN without articles from any such publications would suck worse. Since the core idea of HN is to try to optimize for curiosity, we don't have much of a choice. Hopefully someday the publication problem will get a definitive solution and we won't have to deal with this crap anymore. In the meantime, publicly accessible workarounds are the best of a bad bunch.

(Re registration sites, it's the same principle: if there's a publicly available workaround, it's ok, if not it's not.)