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Re:The ‘Blurred Lines’ case scared songwriters, but its time... by boomboomsubban on Thursday March 26, 2020 @09:13AM (#22693211)
There is no rule against pay walled content, and most NYT stories have numerous people complaining about it. The NYT and WSJ posts still get votes because they're large enough that many people are subscribers, and their paywalls are trivial to bypass.
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Re:The ‘Blurred Lines’ case scared songwriters, but its time... by emanuensis on Thursday March 26, 2020 @02:20PM (#22696316)
The workarounds for WSJ do not work anymore for me, eg the redirect from FarceBorg will still get the "subscribe" page. Also FT. They appear to have removed workarounds. Are they STILL valid HN submissions ... even when there is NO workaround?

Or maybe there is one and i haven't twigged to it yet:-)>

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Re:The ‘Blurred Lines’ case scared songwriters, but its time... by boomboomsubban on Thursday March 26, 2020 @06:34PM (#22698664)
https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-firefox
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Re:The ‘Blurred Lines’ case scared songwriters, but its time... by emanuensis on Saturday March 28, 2020 @07:31PM (#22715127)
Ah yes, "Bypass Paywalls" i do have this extension installed and have been using it for months. WSJ seems to have wizened to his workarounds, and others like the FB redirect. Eg it does not work for

https://www.wsj.com/articles/rbc-sheds-light-on-chinas-rebou...

But i will submit a request at his github site.

In the meantime, AFAIK, there is no workaround for WSJ. Is it still OK to submit them to HN? i do notice there have been few recently.

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Re:The ‘Blurred Lines’ case scared songwriters, but its time... by boomboomsubban on Saturday March 28, 2020 @08:27PM (#22715373)
The latest release notes from seven days ago say they fix the WSJ, but there's also a commit saying that they are temporarily reverting while they wait for Mozilla to sign the update. So there seems to be a way to bypass it still, though I'm not sure what it is.
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