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Re:The Sixth Stage of Grief Is Retro-Computing (2014) by johnr2 on Saturday August 08, 2020 @12:23PM (#24092829)
> Link has a paywall

I'm not seeing a paywall in Firefox with NoScript or in Dillo (which has no JavaScript support).

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Re:The Sixth Stage of Grief Is Retro-Computing (2014) by Shared404 on Saturday August 08, 2020 @12:59PM (#24093127)
Can confirm that Medium does not have any walls with Firefox+NoScript.
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Re:The Sixth Stage of Grief Is Retro-Computing (2014) by jolmg on Saturday August 08, 2020 @03:07PM (#24094204)
You two might not have used up your free stories. I'm seeing the following:

> You have 2 free stories left this month. Sign up and get an extra one for free.

Presumably, if I read 2 more stories on medium, I'll get a paywall, too. Unless I sign up, then I'd get a paywall after reading one more story.

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Re:The Sixth Stage of Grief Is Retro-Computing (2014) by Shared404 on Saturday August 08, 2020 @03:18PM (#24094299)
I've definitely read more than two stories with NoScript enabled. I also block cookies, that may be whats doing it.

Edit: Just went to past submissions from medium.com, opened up about seven. No paywall showing.

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Re:The Sixth Stage of Grief Is Retro-Computing (2014) by a1369209993 on Saturday August 08, 2020 @04:34PM (#24095000)
I'll second "I think it's cookies, but can't authoritatively confim". (I use wget, which doesn't save cookies across processes unless explicitly told to.)
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Re:The Sixth Stage of Grief Is Retro-Computing (2014) by Shared404 on Saturday August 08, 2020 @10:08PM (#24096725)
How's using wget for standard web browsing? I've thought about trying but haven't had motivation.
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