1y ago

Half of Lemmy when someone posts a thought-provoking article

I will leave you with this: How to Bypass a Paywall

Consider that me acting as your Grizz and Dot Com bringing you your Sean Johns.

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Perhaps if you actually want anyone to read your thought provoking article, you should just post a link that's not paywalled to begin with? That way they can easily pass on this important information easily to others instead of giving them a homework assignment?
- A new vulnerability discovered in popular networking devices could leave internet customers vulnerable to data exfiltration. This has the potential to cause issues for private, commercial, and government users. To avoid getting your data stolen, you must [uh-oh, you've reached the end of free information. Subscribe for $20 to continue reading!]
- How dare writers want to be compensated for their thought provoking articles.
  
  I just want a healthy middle ground where I can support someone’s work through non intrusive ads placed on the page instead of either being blocked off completely by paywalls or trying to read the article only to be interrupted by DO YOU HAVE A PROSTATE? GOOD TAKE PROSANTIS FOR YOUR MASSIVELY ENGORGED FAT FUCKING PROSTATE! MAY CAUSE PERMANENT DEATH AND LACTATION. DO NOT TAKE IF YOU ARE A PREGNANT WOMAN OR DO NOT HAVE A PROSTATE OR LITERALLY ALLERGIC TO IT YOU FUCKING IDIOT taking up the entire screen at multiple points
  
  How dare anyone expect that information should be free and publicly available to everyone.
- See link in post.
  "Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed him for life"
  
  What if I don't like seafood?
- But, it wasn't paywalled? The bardeen.ai link OP posted.
  At least for me there just was the annoying cookie content modal and after denying all cookies, the article loaded normally.
Getting around paywalls is all well and good, but the trick to making them go away is for everyone to ignore them - and, by necessary extension, the content they protect - completely and entirely.
- Wouldn't that also make good journalism go too?
  
  It would displace a lot of it, yeah. That's kind of the price we have to pay with capitalism being as rampant as it is now. There are supposed to be 2 sources of limitation on it - the government making laws and restrictions to prevent over-the-top business practices, and the people looking into the businesses they interact with to ensure they agree with its quality and profit strategies. It's expected that people will go without things they want, need, and/or deserve in order to ensure improper business conduct receives low enough profits to dissuade businesses from going that route.
  We've been slacking as both a government and a populace for so long that now nearly all businesses are conducing themselves improperly, and the only real way to start correcting course is to abstain entirely from certain markets until there's enough of a potential customer pool for a more ethical business to start up and thrive by supplying those people with the products and services they want in the way they want them to be supplied.
- Sounds like an "app" problem to me.
  Maybe I can prod some other Lemmy app developers to "steal" this feature from me:
One way, that almost always works for me, is android's reading mode.
I mapped it to the "2 finger swipe from the bottom" shortcut in accessibility.
I have to quickly swipe, right when the page opens, preferably before finishing loading.
And voila
This was a walled article on NYT. It even becomes nicer to read.
Doesn't always work, but the fails are really rare.
- Yeah, reader mode is fantastic when it works (doesn't always for me). In other cases, I just use uBlock Origin to disable javascript which seems to work most of the time.
  
  Thanks for the tip, i never actively tried to bypass ( other than reader mode ), i might give this a try

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