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Re:Mozilla hit with takedown request for anti-paywall addons by DanBC on Sunday December 02, 2018 @10:15AM (#18582618)
> Paywalls were invented this decade.

Compuserve paywalled all of their content way back in the 1980s.

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Re:Mozilla hit with takedown request for anti-paywall addons by wpietri on Sunday December 02, 2018 @05:54PM (#18585097)
Sorry, I specifically mean the "soft" paywall, which is the kind at issue here. If these publishers had required people to log in, no browser extension could bypass that.
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