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functionmousetoday at 4:30 PM5 repliesview on HN

> seems too limiting to me.

articles restricting most users from reading them seems too limiting

ban all sites with paywalls/login walls including Twitter, NYT, FT, Business Insider, literally all of them


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nosioptartoday at 5:09 PM

For anyone who doesnt know: changing the x.com or twitter.com in a twitter link to xcancel.com usually works to view tweets without an account.

(If I remember right, some video links dont always work with xcancel.)

airstriketoday at 4:38 PM

WSJ and Bloomberg offer "gift links" that paid users can share. The latter is only good for 7 days IIRC, however.

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imglorptoday at 4:52 PM

Seems pretty easy to have a bot automatically try to create an archive link and comment it.

Forgeties79today at 4:47 PM

There are plenty of posts every day that don’t require you to get through a paywall - I personally just ignore them. I imagine there are only a handful of paywalled articles a week, and most of them end up having an archive link in the comments anyway

incanus77today at 4:44 PM

Ok, anyone care to gather at a coffee shop so that we can discuss the print version?

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