Oh for fuck's sake. My heart sinks when someone posts a link to an article, you go to read it and after a few lines the text starts to fade out. You just know a "sign up to read the rest of this article" thing is going to scroll into view.
@llamasoft_ox most paywalls are Javascript based. If you just disable JS temporarily, they don't kick in and you get the full article 🤫
Hit F12 in most browsers for the dev console, then tap into the settings within that (usually a cog icon in the upper right), and there'll be a "disable javascript" option there.
i hope websites can tell, despite the various blockers in my browser, whenever I just hit the back button after I get halfway down the article and see the forced account creation prompt.
That is what I do every time. There is nothing special enough about any article that will get me to create an account to read it.
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