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I wish we wouldn't allow upvoting here of articles behind a paywall, this just wastes everyone's time. And yes someone might post a link to get around the paywa

• zeroday28 5y ago
  I wouldn't recommend doing this nor saying I do this, but just FYI; The entire article loads way before the paywall. This means two things: 1) If you disable JavaScript, the paywall goes away. 2) If you can quickly ctrl + a, ctrl + c the entire article you can read it on your IDE. We need to tell economist.com developers to patch this.
  • names_are_hard 5y ago
    Give the devs some credit - maybe they know about this and are not closing the loophole because they want it to stay open? The majority of readers won't take advantage of it and those who will likely wouldn't have paid anyway.
    • unobatbayar 5y ago
      Gave them a call today. Who knew they had toll free international call lines. Quite impressive. https://myaccount.economist.com/s/contact-us https://myaccount.economist.com/s/contact-us
• disgruntledphd2 5y ago
  Newspapers are businesses. Reporting costs money. Free news is generally paid for by the funder. Given the above, how is paywalled content hurting the news industry?
  • nottorp 5y ago
    It's not hurting the news industry... maybe. It's polluting the HN newsfeed... maybe. I for one won't subscribe to paywalled sites i only occasionally get links to on HN or other news aggregators just because they're linked here. Funny enough, I am subscribed to a site that gets linked on here semi regularly. Not paywalled, ads or pay for no ads/tracking. But I've been reading it longer than I've read HN.