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comment by demure
demure  ·  1960 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Loneliest Generation: Americans, More Than Ever, Are Aging Alone

Psst there's a secret passageway through the paywall: https://outline.com/ZkS7h4





kleinbl00  ·  1960 days ago  ·  link  ·  
demure  ·  1960 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Last resort: use a user-agent add-on to your browser to pretend to be GoogleBot, and then print to PDF. suboptimal? you betcha.

edit: printing to PDF doesn't preserve the pretty graphs.

kleinbl00  ·  1960 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Full disclosure: I subscribe to the Wall Street Journal. They have my money. I'm just trying to share the content.

demure  ·  1959 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Ah. I don't subscribe to the WSJ, so I first had to get to the article in order to try things.

Try screenshot.firefox.com?

kleinbl00  ·  1960 days ago  ·  link  ·  

We have a winner! How does that work for future reference?

demure  ·  1960 days ago  ·  link  ·  

My guess is that WSJ exposes the whole article to the crawler that Outline is running (and other crawlers as well) so that they can have high SEO / discoverability. However, that can be exploited to get the article from out behind the paywall. Sometimes they catch on (archive.is used to be a reliable way to do this but it's no more, eg http://archive.is/MhLCX)