Basically, whenever there's a website like this that annoys me, I just copy the URL and Outline it: outline.com/$url
No clicking through annoying dialogs, or having to use a vpn.
If someone else might own the copyright to it, don't submit it. Outline is for reading pages that:
* you own the rights to,
* is in the public domain,
* constitutes fair use, or
* you have consent of the copyright holder.
It's unlikely to hold up in court; the servers of outline.com and their owners will likely be deemed as creating the unauthorized derived work.
You cannot sue a hyperlink that's floating around in the wild; you cannot prove who created that link.
If I were to guess; they will start inserting their own content into these filtered pages, after some time. Newly created ones will be nice and clean, but after some months perhaps, mysterious stuff will start creeping in when those URLs are viewed.
E.x: https://us.hidester.com/proxy.php?u=eJwBWACn%2F3M6ODA6IoYNRJ...
Use Tor Browser.
Still there's an archive.is link listed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17506215
The newspaper business is struggling as is. Every time a publication is blocked in Europe people complain. Ads were the answer for most online publications, but showing targeted ads now pose a legal risk.
I don't know about their business ops, but I'd suspect they've done the math and decided it isn't worth the effort to change their platform so people can read for free in Europe.
And of course they can offer a subscription.
You also don't need to be tracking anything to be non-compliant.
The same is not true for the LA Times.
Item two: I wouldn't subscribe to a newspaper just because i read articles linked from HN occasionally, so I'll just pass on LA times.
Item three: whenever someone comes up with a working micropayment platform, I might throw them 2-3 cents if they get linked on HN. No more.
Yes, I haven't read the original article. I won't even through the free links. They don't want me, they don't get me.