Ask HN: Can we stop linking to paywalls? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Can we stop linking to paywalls?

#51

Post by dang » Wed, Feb 12, 2020, 5:04 PM UTC

If there's a workaround, it's ok. Users usually post workarounds in the thread.

This is in the FAQ at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html and there's more explanation here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

If you're seeing paywalled articles where there was no workaround, please let us know (hn@ycombinator.com is best). But if you're seeing paywalled articles with workarounds, that's normal. Please don't post about it, since it's off-topic and has been discussed many times. We all know the paywalls suck. It's just that HN would suck worse without NYT, WSJ, Economist, etc., articles.

Re: Ask HN: Can we stop linking to paywalls?

#52

Post by jammygit » Wed, Feb 12, 2020, 6:21 PM UTC

imgabe wrote: post #31

jammygit wrote: post #10

Companies need to make money somehow. If not with paywalls, it’s harder for them to avoid monetizing by tracking and advertising

I assume that the companies with paywalls still advertise and track on top of that (one reason I refuse to pay for them).

Yes, that is very unfortunate. Ars Technica at least will disable trackers on paying members

Re: Ask HN: Can we stop linking to paywalls?

#53

Post by kemonocode » Thu, Feb 13, 2020, 11:58 AM UTC

dang wrote: post #51

If there's a workaround, it's ok. Users usually post workarounds in the thread. This is in the FAQ at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html and there's more explanation here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989 https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme... If you're seeing paywalled articles where there was no workaround, please let us know (hn@ycombinator.com is best). But if you're s…

Please allow a paywall tag of some kind then, and a listing of common workarounds somewhere. Then I'm sure the amount of threads about this would decrease by a lot.