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Show HN: A bookmarklet to remove clickgates on New York Times, Medium, etc.

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Re: Show HN: A bookmarklet to remove clickgates on New York Times, Medium, etc.

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This one is also quite helpful: https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-firefox ... for all of the folks out there who don't have a university picking up the tab for the articles that they want to read. It's important to remember that paywalls disproportionately impact those who are not "working" in an academic setting.

And evading paywalls disproportionately impacts the journalists creating the stories you seem to value, though for some reason refuse to pay for.

Re: Show HN: A bookmarklet to remove clickgates on New York Times, Medium, etc.

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Here is a gist of the commented code. It works by fetching the HTML content of the website, anonymously with no cookies. Using the fetch API. In a second step the HTML is preprocessed, removing javascript, inserting elements like images that might be done through javascript etc. The third step is to rerplace the current windows HTML with the clean-preprocessed HTML with the article. https://gist.github.com/sugoidesun…

Nice...

Re: Show HN: A bookmarklet to remove clickgates on New York Times, Medium, etc.

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post #9

Do you think the 1,600 journalists at The New York Times, many of whom work in difficult environments (including the White House, lol), should work for free? Quite the Scrooge move.

Sidebar: working for and writing at tbe NYT - or any "news" publisher - doesn't make you a journalist. Journalist is a process and a result. We're too quick to use the word journalist. The low bar should not be so normalized.

Re: Show HN: A bookmarklet to remove clickgates on New York Times, Medium, etc.

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post #9

Do you think the 1,600 journalists at The New York Times, many of whom work in difficult environments (including the White House, lol), should work for free? Quite the Scrooge move.

Sidebar: working for and writing at tbe NYT - or any "news" publisher - doesn't make you a journalist. Journalist is a process and a result. We're too quick to use the word journalist. The low bar should not be so normalized.

Lol. NYT = "low bar". You're living in an alternate reality.

Re: Show HN: A bookmarklet to remove clickgates on New York Times, Medium, etc.

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Do you think the 1,600 journalists at The New York Times, many of whom work in difficult environments (including the White House, lol), should work for free? Quite the Scrooge move.

They should pay me reparations for reading some of the nonsense they publish.

Re: Show HN: A bookmarklet to remove clickgates on New York Times, Medium, etc.

#17
post #9

Do you think the 1,600 journalists at The New York Times, many of whom work in difficult environments (including the White House, lol), should work for free? Quite the Scrooge move.

I think a lot of what you need to know about (a swathe of) the Hacker News community is that I get voted down for pointing out that you're stealing content.

Re: Show HN: A bookmarklet to remove clickgates on New York Times, Medium, etc.

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post #16
post #9

Do you think the 1,600 journalists at The New York Times, many of whom work in difficult environments (including the White House, lol), should work for free? Quite the Scrooge move.

They should pay me reparations for reading some of the nonsense they publish.

I'm sorry for your indentured servitude.

Re: Show HN: A bookmarklet to remove clickgates on New York Times, Medium, etc.

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post #9

Do you think the 1,600 journalists at The New York Times, many of whom work in difficult environments (including the White House, lol), should work for free? Quite the Scrooge move.

For those who want a daily concise version of the New York Times, check out https://timesdigest.com/.

It's not free, but I've found it to be a great way to read the NYTimes.

Example of the 10-page daily PDF: https://timesdigest.com/samples/timesdigest

Re: Show HN: A bookmarklet to remove clickgates on New York Times, Medium, etc.

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post #9

Do you think the 1,600 journalists at The New York Times, many of whom work in difficult environments (including the White House, lol), should work for free? Quite the Scrooge move.

I feel like, if PewDiePie can make 1 Million a month in youtube ad-revenue and 8 million total. A Newssite like NYT ought to be able to support their staff, thanks to a global reach and 240Million views per month.
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