America’s weirdest guidebooks were funded by the government

Re:America’s weirdest guidebooks were funded by the government by failwhaleshark on Friday June 18, 2021 @08:52PM (#27556785)

Not all of the browsers I use support browser extensions that could automagically un-paywall.

Would it be ethical / legal for HN to automatically try using un-paywalling services for paywalled articles?

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Re:America’s weirdest guidebooks were funded by the government by pabs3 on Friday June 18, 2021 @10:45PM (#27557306)

Just disabling cookies, CSS and JS bypasses the paywall.

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Re:America’s weirdest guidebooks were funded by the government by judge2020 on Saturday June 19, 2021 @01:07AM (#27557928)

For certain IPs (probably determined by counting visits per day/week) nytimes and a few others, eg. wsj, seems to not even deliver the full article, instead only giving the first 2 paragraphs so if you don't have JS enabled you just don't get the article. Might be a reason why sites like outline.com have stopped supporting them.

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Re:America’s weirdest guidebooks were funded by the government by pabs3 on Saturday June 19, 2021 @01:26AM (#27558002)

There is a simple fix for WSJ, just append this to the URL: ?mod=djemalertNEWS

I haven't yet seen this with nytimes.

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Re:America’s weirdest guidebooks were funded by the government by failwhaleshark on Monday June 21, 2021 @12:16AM (#27576272)

I swear I need a scriptlet for this because this is awesome.

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Re:America’s weirdest guidebooks were funded by the government by pabs3 on Monday June 21, 2021 @04:55AM (#27577445)

There is also a WebExtension that works with WSJ:

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

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Re:America’s weirdest guidebooks were funded by the government by failwhaleshark on Sunday June 20, 2021 @11:52PM (#27576150)

Yeap. I never get the article without some magic site.

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Re:America’s weirdest guidebooks were funded by the government by fiddlerwoaroof on Friday June 18, 2021 @10:13PM (#27557154)

Reader view almost always bypasses The NY Times paywall

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Re:America’s weirdest guidebooks were funded by the government by failwhaleshark on Sunday June 20, 2021 @11:52PM (#27576149)

It doesn't work.

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Re:America’s weirdest guidebooks were funded by the government by R0b0t1 on Saturday June 19, 2021 @01:03AM (#27557907)

More often than not reader view does not work on paywalled articles for me.

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