How Chinese Officials Hijacked My Company

Re:How Chinese Officials Hijacked My Company by throwayws on Saturday August 08, 2020 @08:50AM (#24091253)

It seems they activate the paywall after a post gets traction. Because there was none before.

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Re:How Chinese Officials Hijacked My Company by croutonwagon on Saturday August 08, 2020 @08:57AM (#24091291)

Easy bypass is to run it through a url shortener, and then outline.com.

Works for NYT as well, and most others.

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Re:How Chinese Officials Hijacked My Company by dwd on Saturday August 08, 2020 @09:28AM (#24091491)

NYT can be bypassed using Reader View, but the WSJ seems to be able to disable it.

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Re:How Chinese Officials Hijacked My Company by croutonwagon on Saturday August 08, 2020 @11:54AM (#24092572)

Sometimes. I find it can be hit and miss. Depending on how many articles ive read....er loaded.

Outline trick works for a lot. Even sites like financial times etc

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Re:How Chinese Officials Hijacked My Company by greenyoda on Saturday August 08, 2020 @06:11PM (#24095651)

Thanks, I tried this with tinyurl.com, and it worked!

The NYT paywall (and many others) can also be bypassed by blocking cookies and/or JavaScript using a browser extension such as uMatrix. (That doesn't work for WSJ, however.)

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Re:How Chinese Officials Hijacked My Company by dependenttypes on Saturday August 08, 2020 @08:58AM (#24091302)

I knew that they were scummy but this is quite extreme.

Thankfully it is easy to bypass with archive.org (or archive.is)

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