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Here’s a site that helps you circumvent article paywalls. · 4

kantos · 390 days ago

The idea is pretty simple, news sites want Google to index their content so it shows up in search results. So they don't show a paywall to the Google crawler. We benefit from this because the Google crawler will cache a copy of the site every time it crawls it.

All we do is show you that cached, unpaywalled version of the page.

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<a onclick="_blank" href="javascript:L3f7=window.open('https://hubski.com//pub/462539');">Discuss this on Hubski.</a>

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psychoticmilkman · 389 days ago · link ·

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