CAcatherinezng·Mar 8, 2018Submission
Bypass Paywalls for Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Financial Times
5 points · Open discussionnjuljsong
wsjunblock
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Observed mentions: 2017-08-11 20:32:55 UTC to 2018-03-08 02:17:58 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7 | 2017-08-07 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-08-14 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Aug 14 | 2017-08-14 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-08-21 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 21 | 2017-08-21 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-08-28 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 28 | 2017-08-28 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-09-04 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 4 | 2017-09-04 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-09-11 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 11 | 2017-09-11 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-09-18 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 18 | 2017-09-18 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-09-25 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Sep 25 | 2017-09-25 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-10-02 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2 | 2017-10-02 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-10-09 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Oct 9 | 2017-10-09 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-10-16 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 16 | 2017-10-16 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-10-23 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Oct 23 | 2017-10-23 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-10-30 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 30 | 2017-10-30 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-11-06 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 6 | 2017-11-06 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-11-13 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 13 | 2017-11-13 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-11-20 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 20 | 2017-11-20 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-11-27 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 27 | 2017-11-27 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-12-04 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 4 | 2017-12-04 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-12-11 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 11 | 2017-12-11 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-12-18 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Dec 18 | 2017-12-18 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-12-25 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 25 | 2017-12-25 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 1 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-08 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 8 | 2018-01-08 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-15 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 15 | 2018-01-15 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-22 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Jan 22 | 2018-01-22 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-29 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Jan 29 | 2018-01-29 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-02-05 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 5 | 2018-02-05 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-02-12 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 12 | 2018-02-12 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-02-19 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 19 | 2018-02-19 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-02-26 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Feb 26 | 2018-02-26 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-03-05 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 5 | 2018-03-05 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-03-12 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
10 sourcesMake WSJ & NYTimes Great Again:
https://github.com/njuljsong/wsjUnblock
In A $232M Cryptocurrency Fight Comes to a CloseFor Chrome users: https://github.com/njuljsong/wsjUnblock
For Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bypasspaywall...
In How to bypass WSJ and NYTimes paywalls?This extension is, like, not lame: https://github.com/njuljsong/wsjUnblock
In For These Young Entrepreneurs, Silicon Valley Is, Like, LameThis article is paywalled.
I'm not sure what the appropriate response is to that on HN. I'd probably downvote if I could downvote submissions, but flagging seems unduly harsh.
I found a Chrome extension to bypass the paywall: https://github.com/njuljsong/wsjUnblock
In German Kindergarten Campouts Test Helicopter Parents (2015)You can use this (https://github.com/njuljsong/wsjUnblock) to bypass the paywall.
In MIT Economist Has a New Theory of FinanceThere are still numerous ways to circumvent the paywall [0], or else linking to WSJ would be against the guidelines [1]
[0]: https://github.com/njuljsong/wsjUnblock
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
In Parts of Model 3 Were Being Made by Handhttps://github.com/njuljsong/wsjUnblock
Make WSJ & NYTimes Great Again
In Yahoo Triples Estimate of Breached Accounts to 3BSee here is the extension for Chrome https://github.com/njuljsong/wsjUnblock Technically you just need to set the location referer to something like Facebook's domain.
In Why I Was Fired by Google