Show HN: A bookmarklet to remove clickgates on New York Times, Medium, etc., Hacker News

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Show HN: A bookmarklet to remove clickgates on New York Times, Medium, etc.

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timar(1 hour ago

Recently i stumbled on too many clickgates on the Medium blog Towards Data science. Considering that most people publish to share knowledge on Medium and are driven into putting their content behind a paywall, without actually getting paid for it, including myself. I felt like Medium is running the academic publishing scheme. Get free content and get paid for it. So I decided to create a small script to bypass the paywall on Medium, it turns out it also works on other newssites. Heres the website: https://sugoidesune.github.io/readium/ For the curious I will explain the technical aspects in a comment.

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Do you think the 1, 728 journalists at the New York Times, many of whom work in difficult environments (including the White House, lol), should work for free? Quite the Scrooge move.

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I feel like, if PewDiePie can make 1 Million a month in youtube ad-revenue and 8 million total. A Newssite like NYT ought to be able to support their staff, thanks to a global reach and (Million views per month.) ***********************************

8 million dollars over (journalists is $) ************************************************************************************************************* each. Pewdipie doesnt have the costs of running a news company and hes not in the news industry

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Yeah, thats 8 million a month. i feel like 5k a month is pretty good pay for a journalist.

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I think a lot of what you need to know about (a swathe of) the Hacker News community is that I get voted down for pointing out that you’re stealing content.

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Sidebar: working for and writing at tbe NYT – or any “news” publisher – doesn’t make you a journalist. Journalist is a process and a result. We’re too quick to use the word journalist. The low bar should not be so normalized.

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() this it’s literally facilitating copyright infringement if you don’t want to pay for them is fine, just don’t read them(********************************

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Good stuff timar – this definitely beats my trick of hitting the Esc key at just the right moment to stop JS from loading. I’ve gotten very good at that, but also life is very short and I shouldn’t need to! So your bookmarklet will come to the rescue:) this could be integrated with Firefox’s Reader mode somehow?(****************************************************************

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Not very familiar with firefox or reader mode. . But if it’s something firefox does with the html of the website youre currently on. Than I see no reason why it couldn’t work together. First getting the article with Readium, secondly starting Reader mode.

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And evading paywalls disproportionately impacts the journalists creating the stories you seem to value, though for some reason refuse to pay for.

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