Did you know about this Internet trick?

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Are you tired of websites forcing you to log in? Try this trick for paywalls!

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Matty McTech

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i remember seeing an article talking about how science is becoming more inaccessible…and it was paywalled. speaks for itself.

RAZRLPEE

whenever they ask me to log, bombard me with cookie disclaimers or complain about my add blocker I just ... move on to another site. Simple as that

ionicafardefrica

I wish my memory was good enough to remember this when I run into one of these sites.

rick

I just take it as “well, they can suffer in silence and I’ll forget about wanting to read this in about 15 seconds”

driddlesd

That’s assuming the article was once free and then put behind a paywall. It won’t work with articles that started as premium content and stayed as such until you found them.

the_oren_cohen

In a lot of cases you can also just inspect element, disable that div, and remove the "overflow: hidden" in the style.

apalsnerg

I normally just come back to youtube when that happens.

Jacob-bnth

I also hit the reader button on the right. Go to a Medium article and try that. It cuts all the garbage out and let's you read the article.

greycell

I just ignore that website and put it on a blacklist. They can suffer the consequences of having a website with very little traffic.

wc

Another tip, most of these sites give you a couple free articles before forcing you to log in. You can just close the page, delete the site cookies, then go back to the site

deluxeassortment

Every time I see the NYT, I just pass it by. You have to pay for a subscription to read anything. I can live without it.

diknzsj

On the MS Edge, I just turn on the reading mode, very clean and easy page to read. No paywall, no cookies disclaimer or complaints about my ad blocker. It works on the phone as well.

MrAndreCoutinho

I forgot you can check archives. I learned this in a Cybersecurity research project to find old versions of an article and last website updates

teerich

I added a browser add-on that lets meet toggle javascript on and off. Many of the login popups that block the page stop working when JS is disabled. Remember to toggle it back on when you’re finished reading.

sockmonkey