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Why hard paywalls is not blocked on Lemmy? (ponder.cat)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I started to notice some people posting NYT, Bloomberg or other websites with hard paywalls, that leads to people in the comments that are unable to read the article to discuess the headline without any analysis and some times spreading misinformation, which cannot be countered by the article, due to the paywall.

Which bring me to this: Why does no one thought about blocking hard paywalled articles for the sake of quality of discussion?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No because archive.today exists

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

How accessible is this to smart phone users?

While it's kind of easy to bypass paywalls on desktop, it's hard to do it on smart phones.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

Just tested it now, extremely accessible.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

There are extensions on Firefox for Android that do this for you. I think it's very accessible.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Type your favorite archive site mirror into the address bar (I'm partial to archive.is) then add a forward slash and then the full URL. I do this on my phone all the time.

You'll also often find someone posts an archive link on any articles with a hard pay wall - if you see such a link give them some internet points so they feel warm and fuzzy.