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Re:The FBI Lost Our Son by droithomme on Sunday October 20, 2019 @02:36PM (#21306089)
The usual advice of opening in Private Mode doesn't work anymore as a workaround.

I found though one can search for the link in google, then click on it and it will let you in.

Re:The FBI Lost Our Son by JudasGoat on Sunday October 20, 2019 @03:19PM (#21306394)
https://github.com/iamadamdev works good in Chrome. I haven't tried Firefox.
Re:The FBI Lost Our Son by RandomBacon on Sunday October 20, 2019 @03:36PM (#21306499)
Works on Firefox Mobile on Android with uBlock Origin and several other privacy add-ons also installed.
Re:The FBI Lost Our Son by icelancer on Sunday October 20, 2019 @07:58PM (#21308191)
Confirmed on Chrome. Thanks for this!
Re:The FBI Lost Our Son by antgly on Monday October 21, 2019 @08:53AM (#21311678)
Sorta unrelated, but has anyone gotten this to work with Quartz News articles? I’ve had little success with trying it to bypass their paywalls.
Re:The FBI Lost Our Son by TheSpiceIsLife on Sunday October 20, 2019 @02:55PM (#21306237)
There’s a link on this page under the title of the article via the word Web that does that for you.
Re:The FBI Lost Our Son by itronitron on Sunday October 20, 2019 @02:40PM (#21306119)
yeah, that is interesting... searching in DuckDuckGo also works
Re:The FBI Lost Our Son by dexen on Sunday October 20, 2019 @04:26PM (#21306856)
I want to boycott websites that paywall themselves off like that. Hopefully with some more similarly minded people we can get the ball rolling - get Google to honestly enforce their no cloaking policy. Maybe even get HN to de-rank submissions from their domains.
Re:The FBI Lost Our Son by vultour on Sunday October 20, 2019 @08:05PM (#21308219)
Why? Because you don't want to pay for content?
Re:The FBI Lost Our Son by antgly on Monday October 21, 2019 @01:13PM (#21314702)
Because a lot of paywalled content just merely creates the semblance of quality, which leads to less critical thinking amongst its readers. I think there should be exceptions, but paying for clickbait, in my opinion, is rewarding those who create it and incentivizes a lower quality of journalistic integrity.
Re:The FBI Lost Our Son by paulcole on Sunday October 20, 2019 @05:14PM (#21307198)
Here’s a sneaky little hack that really works well. When you like a site’s content enough to want to read it, pay them!

Edit: Why the downvotes? Actually paying for things is a form of disruption!

Re:The FBI Lost Our Son by hnbroseph on Sunday October 20, 2019 @07:29PM (#21308059)
I don't think anyone wants to read it for its own sake though, rather its something that's been shared and in that context its annoying. Not to mention people aren't exactly interested in subscribing to countless content outlets.
Re:The FBI Lost Our Son by drtillberg on Sunday October 20, 2019 @09:55PM (#21308783)
Is anyone working on a meta-level a-la-carte subscription system? Pay 3d party, which grants per-article access to journalist websites at a lower price point than full subscription to any or all of them. Bonus if the system shields identity so as not to allow publisher to personalize ads, etc.
Re:The FBI Lost Our Son by lowercased on Sunday October 20, 2019 @10:12PM (#21308845)
we've been waiting for this for... 20 years? Apple's "news" thing might get the closest, perhaps, but I still have to subscribe to that.

3 different people suggested this story to me (originally from Detroit area, and have had family in Russia for a spell). I'm not subscribing to the whole site for this one story. If I could have paid, say, 15-30c to get it, I would have done so.