(07-17-2024, 12:56 PM)The Real Marty Wrote: The media is something else.  "Republicans could be overlooking a huge problem with JD Vance" says the headline.  But you don't get to see the article unless you subscribe to "Business Insider." 

That happens all over the place.  "We have critical information that the public needs to know!"  We'll tell you if you pay us some money.

One nifty trick that I use to get around paywalls is a plugin that I have (Firefox is my browser) called Tranquility.  It basically removes all of the unnecessary crap on the web page and presents just the text.

Second little trick is to copy/paste the headline into Google and follow the link from the search results.  Without getting too technical the web server sees the "referring origin" as Google and will allow it.  This doesn't always work but it's a quick thing to try.

Final trick is kind of low-level.  I don't use Window$ and don't surf much on my phone.  A couple of common tools available for Linux (and I believe available with Apple products) are Curl and Wget.  You can essentially download the web page and view it locally on your computer.

So far I haven't found a website with a paywall that I can't read.

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