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Re:Investors pour $1bn into buying up small merchants on Amazon by kasperni on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @03:56AM (#25515772)
Not sure why I would want to install a new browser to read an article?

Edit: I appreciate the tip, I just think it is a bit excessive to install a new browser to read a single article.

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Re:Investors pour $1bn into buying up small merchants on Amazon by callumlocke on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @04:05AM (#25515826)
I think the commenter was just trying to be helpful.
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Re:Investors pour $1bn into buying up small merchants on Amazon by ricardo81 on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @05:08AM (#25516164)
Agree. A quicker if not elegant alternative is to cancel the page load after the article appears. Typically works for any site that's using JS to hide/erase content already served.
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Re:Investors pour $1bn into buying up small merchants on Amazon by imperfectcats on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @05:17AM (#25516203)
It works for most paywalls, NY Times being one I remember, so it is handy beyond one article.

Likely there are a bazzillion reasons you can't optimise the current browser to turn off JS, and what are the chances anyone has Opera, and would find running it in JS off mode problematic?

YMMV, but I think it is a lot easier to install a browser as a cheap, easy, JS free paywall buster than the alternatives.

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