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How to get past a paywall to read an article ... (lifehacker.com)
submitted 1 year ago by muaveri to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm sure most are already aware of it, but to get around it they'd have to lock part of the article behind a "load more" button that requires JS (or even just auto-load it via JS without a button), which I have seen some do.

There must be a reason it's not done universally though. Maybe because it'd break archives? Not sure

[–] inspxtr 5 points 1 year ago

From my observation the “load more” type of wall is more prevalent for scientific journals than the typical news sites. Not sure why.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

My assumption is that they want the content to load initially so search engines can index it.