Disabled for The NY Times Blocked by Bloomberg Doesn't work on WSJ Did this work anywhere?
Doesn't work on hs.fi either. Who's upvoting this and why?
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#32In my opinion if we keep popularizing technologies like this we will lose them.
Look at the number of websites that are now blocking ad blockers because we all installed ad blockers on our parents machines and popularized the technology.
We should keep some technology under the radar and just for hackers.
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#33> Paywalls offend me. The Internet exists to share knowledge with everyone across the world. You shouldn’t need a subscription, all you should need is an internet connection to access the world’s knowledge. That is some Grade-A willful ignorance. Professional writers who perform their due diligence get paid. Professional photographers who travel and document important causes get paid. Editors who ensure accuracy and…
This is all true. Paywalls are a reasonable method to pay content makers and there is nothing wrong with them per se.
What I find offensive is paywalls which lower themselves selectively in order to SEO Google and Bing. That is, they're inserting their walled gardens into my searches of the open web in the hopes of manipulating me into subsidizing them. This is simply unethical.
Also people posting paywalled articles on HN is very irritating.
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#34> Paywalls offend me. The Internet exists to share knowledge with everyone across the world. You shouldn’t need a subscription, all you should need is an internet connection to access the world’s knowledge. That is some Grade-A willful ignorance. Professional writers who perform their due diligence get paid. Professional photographers who travel and document important causes get paid. Editors who ensure accuracy and…
Piracy is a usability problem. People want to read one article, not subscribe for a year. This is just like pirating one song instead of buying the album.
Banks need to get their shit together and allow micro transactions.
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#35I’m still waiting for micro transactions. I won’t pay $5 a month for a newspaper I might read one article from but I would gladly pay 25 cents for that one good article. How are there still minimum amounts and fees on transactions when everything is supposedly digitized and networked?
This is probably a use-case for crypto currency I could actually support... except the gas fees make it worse than the MC/Visa rails
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#36Well, last time I tried a couple of sites on 12ft, it gave me an error saying "this site has been disabled on 12ft"
Hmmmmm
Re: Hate paywalls? 12ft.io is the answer
#37I’m still waiting for micro transactions. I won’t pay $5 a month for a newspaper I might read one article from but I would gladly pay 25 cents for that one good article. How are there still minimum amounts and fees on transactions when everything is supposedly digitized and networked?
I think it is an inditement of the crypto space that this obvious use case never materialized.
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#38I’m still waiting for micro transactions. I won’t pay $5 a month for a newspaper I might read one article from but I would gladly pay 25 cents for that one good article. How are there still minimum amounts and fees on transactions when everything is supposedly digitized and networked?
because that kind of transaction system isn't in high demand. People already suffer from choice-fatigue and if anything people are likely looking for bundles that give them access to more papers for a flat fee rather than the opposite.
It's why Spotify and Apple Music exist rather than people paying a fraction of a cent for each song.
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#39Sadly, the sites that don't work on 12ft.io is growing. I keep running into this when trying to read NYT.
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#40The author states:
>"Most sites block content with a simple JavaScript-generated facade, and bypassing them is as simple as disabling JavaScript. The Firefox Reader View is fantastic for bypassing paywalls of this type."
Is this also how "Reader View" on iOS works? Would using no-script or disabling JS in Chrome or Firefox produce the same result then?
>"The FT is the most interesing one. Many of their articles are blocked right away. But the trick here is to copy the title of the article, paste it into google.com, click on the link from Google and presto - the article is visible."
Can someone say how this works? Does this work on the HTTP Referer header?