alt Hacker NewsArticle is behind a paywall for me.
Odd that it’s on HN front page :-/
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EGreg • yesterday at 8:43 PM
That’s how much their silence was able to accomplish!
sltkr • yesterday at 9:15 PM
I agree with you though, it's obnoxious to share paywalled articles on Hacker News.
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moritzwarhier • yesterday at 8:50 PM
It annoys me too, but is not unusual for journalism submissions here.
HN sometimes likes to discuss texts that weren't published as a free contribution on some blog by a dev with lots of time on their hand.
It's not forbidden to post paywalled links on HN, AFAIK.
I also struggle to see an alternative when it comes to professional journalism.
Maybe a kind soul will be able to share a gift link.
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Reader mode bypasses it. It's only a JS layer on top of content that's already inside the HTML doc.
Disabling first party JS works too, using umatrix or similar tools. The site works perfectly without JS.
Edit: because of all of that, of course view source bypasses the paywall too and reveals tons of inlined CSS.