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Paywalled sites are just fine, but they are not part of the open Internet, and should not pretend to be.
or... just remove the `overflow: hidden` that's most likely placed on the ` ` or some high level ` `.
Not sure why this 'hack' is on the front-page.
I use this JS bookmarklet to remove fixed elements and restore scrolling, it works most of the time: https://pastebin.com/qBjJHkMv I also have one to kill all running javascript and remove all event listeners, it works wonders when you are redirected to a paywall / login page after a few seconds.
This is supposed to be saved as a Javascript Bookmarklet?
Many sites don't contains the full content even if you do that. I'm not sure of how it works (does it subscribed to them all?) but https://archive.ph/ is a good way to see the content in those cases. But really, if you are regularly reading content on a site you should subscribe to support the journalists employed there.
bloomberg.com for instance, hides pay walled lines in empty s.
the other method is to disable javascript and cookies (works on nytimes.com), or press ESC key to stop page loading before paywall kicks in (works on telegraph.co.uk) :)
Many sites don't contains the full content even if you do that. I'm not sure of how it works (does it subscribed to them all?) but https://archive.ph/ is a good way to see the content in those cases. But really, if you are regularly reading content on a site you should subscribe to support the journalists employed there.
I'd go further than your statement: I try not to read paywalled contents. Actually I don't get all these workarounds about paywalls. I'm like "they don't want me to read it? I'm not going to read it then".
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Can't speak for OP but I think I would be annoyed if I was paying a subscription and I found out I could get around it with a simple `.` because of developer incompetence.
If you are paying for a subscription then hopefully you do it to support the publication and find their work useful, and not because of a nag banner.
What I find annoying about paywalled sites is that they provide the full content to Google. And Google is OK with indexing the full content, even though it is not available on the internet, and even though they explicitly forbid the practice of showing different content to a search engine from what is available publicly. Paywalled sites are just fine, but they are not part of the open Internet, and should not pretend…
It's like if you needed an app to view a page, yet Google had all its content indexed. Why is that (rightly) seen as unreasonable while charging users for content you provide to bots for free isn't?
Some sites now are literally not loading the actual paywalled content until after you sign in, so not matter what you do you aren't going to be able to access it unless someone with a paid subscription shares that content and it is then uploaded to a third party paywall bypasser.
I recommend the browser extension "Bypass Paywalls Clean". I sometimes think about the morality of using it, but I just don't find it viable to pay all the websites where I read just a single article.
This.
In the print days, you'd buy a newspaper; you'd have access to all the articles in that edition. I used to read a daily paper.
In the modern world, these papers expect you to pay for a newspaper just to read a single article. I dunno, perhaps they could form a "Paywall Consortium", so that I could pay a one-day fee to the consortium, and have access to Washpo, Telegraph, NYT etc. for 24 hours. Let the consortium figure out how to distribute the fees - it's not my concern.
But if you want me to buy the whole paper to read a single article, well, ain't gonna happen.
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> I'm not sure of how it works (does it subscribed to them all?) but https://archive.ph/ is a good way to see the content in those cases. I think for search engine crawlers there are versions without a paywall so these articles can get fully indexed. Archive.ph, and similar services, might get the full content this way somehow. But I am just guessing.
archive.ph also uses (donated) logins to archive (paywalled) content, however those accounts do get blocked from time to time. https://blog.archive.today/post/678202832257794048/why-cant-... While pretending to be GoogleBot used to get you full articles (or grabbing them from cache) this doesn't seem to be the case for some sites anymore. They just give the first part of the article without the paywall, as that's usu…
Many consumers often wouldn't read more text anyway. About one paragraph might even be too much to fill the modern attention span.