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Re:Hospital employee fired for ‘intentionally’ ruining 500 d... by hombre_fatal on Thursday December 31, 2020 @11:40AM (#25594216)
No. I don't only want to read ad-driven content. Time to learn how to bypass paywalls in 2020.
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Re:Hospital employee fired for ‘intentionally’ ruining 500 d... by skeeter2020 on Thursday December 31, 2020 @11:56AM (#25594390)
so... you don't want to pay for content or get ads. Enjoy your cake.
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Re:Hospital employee fired for ‘intentionally’ ruining 500 d... by fingerlocks on Thursday December 31, 2020 @01:24PM (#25595420)
You can bypass a paywall by paying.

That’s how I interpreted the post.

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Re:Hospital employee fired for ‘intentionally’ ruining 500 d... by NoOneNew on Thursday December 31, 2020 @11:44AM (#25594238)
To be fair, doesn't bypassing paywalls kind of the defeat the purpose for these sites to be able to provide content without ads? Thus, ad driven content is the only way for them to keep the lights on.
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Re:Hospital employee fired for ‘intentionally’ ruining 500 d... by EdJiang on Thursday December 31, 2020 @12:12PM (#25594574)
The WashPo paywall is the worst -- it rewrites your address bar so you can't even bookmark the URL for later or copy/paste it to share. Really frustrating on mobile when you can be in an app that's not logged into WashPo. Why would the product team make that decision?
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Re:Hospital employee fired for ‘intentionally’ ruining 500 d... by fencepost on Thursday December 31, 2020 @11:53AM (#25594354)
Frequently bypassing is just searching for the title to pick it up at another news site that it's syndicated to.
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