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TIL of a paywall workaround(self)

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neolib 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun 24 days ago

I just set up autodeletion of cookies (in chrome) for most popular news domains.

Zapped[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun 24 days ago

How does that affect the paywall block?

neolib 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun 24 days ago

Some websites (like NYT or WaPo) allow a couple of articles for free, and the counter is kept in cookies. This trick doesn't work for FT and WSJ, only archive.is for those.