On: How Chinese Officials Hijacked My Company

[throwayws]

It seems they activate the paywall after a post gets traction. Because there was none before.

[croutonwagon → throwayws]

Easy bypass is to run it through a url shortener, and then outline.com.

Works for NYT as well, and most others.

[dwd → croutonwagon]

NYT can be bypassed using Reader View, but the WSJ seems to be able to disable it.

[croutonwagon → dwd]

Sometimes. I find it can be hit and miss. Depending on how many articles ive read....er loaded.

Outline trick works for a lot. Even sites like financial times etc

[greenyoda → croutonwagon]

Thanks, I tried this with tinyurl.com, and it worked!

The NYT paywall (and many others) can also be bypassed by blocking cookies and/or JavaScript using a browser extension such as uMatrix. (That doesn't work for WSJ, however.)

[dependenttypes → throwayws]

I knew that they were scummy but this is quite extreme.

Thankfully it is easy to bypass with archive.org (or archive.is)