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Why hard paywalls is not blocked on Lemmy?
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No because archive.today exists
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.
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.
Just tested it now, extremely accessible.
There are extensions on Firefox for Android that do this for you. I think it's very accessible.