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Re:Americans are on the move, but their stuff doesn’t always... by hyperrail on Friday May 28, 2021 @12:23AM (#27311701)
Archive.today has it in full: https://archive.ph/vMbpD

I wonder how they're so consistently good at evading the Wall Street Journal's paywall, which is usually strict with no metered free limit and limited exceptions even for Twitter and Facebook shares. Probably the WSJ's website team would like to know too.

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Re:Americans are on the move, but their stuff doesn’t always... by rrrrrrrrrrrryan on Friday May 28, 2021 @12:31AM (#27311749)
Probably just clear cache and cookies, then spoof the referrer as Facebook. Works for almost all major paywalled news sites.

Edit: An even simpler solution:

https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome/blob/b5...

They might just run that extension actually, since it's popular and regularly updated.

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