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

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Cat@ponder.cat to c/askbeehaw@beehaw.org

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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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[-] chloyster@beehaw.org 1 points 3 months ago

Tbh everyone should just use bypass paywalls clean. It's a bit harder to find now that it's been taken down on most well known code repos, but it is still regularly updated and works extremely well. Here is a direct link to the latest .xpi file you can use in your browser: Bypass Paywalls Clean

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