I am not sure if this would work or not, but here it goes: I usually get around paywalls by finding the article through google. Then, when I click the google link, I get the full article with no prompts for subscribing or anything else.. Maybe for known offenders (Newsweek, WSJ, NYtimes etc), you can paste that google link in a comment?
I'll test this just here. Here's a WSJ article, when clicking it on the webpage, I hit a paywall. This is the google link. EDIT: doesn't let me post, says link exceeds 300 characters :/
Tried google short url but get an error that domain goo..gl has been banned. I guess it's because short url's are not really allowed here. Too bad, that could've been a way round paywalls :/
There are some shorteners that work fairly well when I encounter issues but then you start up issues with only snapping from certain domains x number of times per day and it's just a big mess. Also this doesn't help for the hit or miss paywall sites where only some users become paywalled as the aggregator wouldn't know which urls to google and shorten. Again, it's good thinking - for what it's worth. Thanks for the attempt.
Award for the longest link in the world?! I'd say use a url shortner for that method but most are blocked and now we're talking about an immense amount of work to simply share a snap. I don't know if this method is viable, as clever as it is. (and it is)
I am not sure if this would work or not, but here it goes: I usually get around paywalls by finding the article through google. Then, when I click the google link, I get the full article with no prompts for subscribing or anything else.. Maybe for known offenders (Newsweek, WSJ, NYtimes etc), you can paste that google link in a comment?
I'll test this just here. Here's a WSJ article, when clicking it on the webpage, I hit a paywall. This is the google link. EDIT: doesn't let me post, says link exceeds 300 characters :/
Tried google short url but get an error that domain goo..gl has been banned. I guess it's because short url's are not really allowed here. Too bad, that could've been a way round paywalls :/
There are some shorteners that work fairly well when I encounter issues but then you start up issues with only snapping from certain domains x number of times per day and it's just a big mess. Also this doesn't help for the hit or miss paywall sites where only some users become paywalled as the aggregator wouldn't know which urls to google and shorten. Again, it's good thinking - for what it's worth. Thanks for the attempt.
Award for the longest link in the world?! I'd say use a url shortner for that method but most are blocked and now we're talking about an immense amount of work to simply share a snap. I don't know if this method is viable, as clever as it is. (and it is)
that's exactly what I tried - didn't work either. Too bad.. Google links would've been an easy solution.