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[–]humancorpse 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

ok, i dont get it... i tried looking at an article that is behind a paywall..

https://www.wsj.com/articles/bitcoin-creator-satoshi-nakamoto-could-be-unmasked-at-florida-trial-11636808401?mod=hp_lead_pos6

so how do i use this 12ft thingy to see the entire article?

[–]Tiwaking 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This is a tough case. You can use privacy wall to find the full article on another website instead: https://www.privacywall.org/
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/bitcoin-creator-satoshi-nakamoto-could-be-unmasked-at-florida-trial-11636832398?mod=futures-movers

edit: Drewski has mentioned archive.today too: https://archive.ph/bdbaG

[–]Node[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

How does it work?

The idea is pretty simple, news sites want Google to index their content so it shows up in search results. So they don't show a paywall to the Google crawler. We benefit from this because the Google crawler will cache a copy of the site every time it crawls it.

All we do is show you that cached, unpaywalled version of the page.

I'm guessing they block the google crawler. Works on sites that don't block the crawler.