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Comment by jsprogrammer | Hacker News Reader

Will clickbait to paywalls continue to be voted up?

A nonbank seems to be an independent loan counter, likely backed by multiple banks.

So, they create some money at one bank, then sell it to another bank (while doing the work required); essentially.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12648282 and marked it off-topic. Sorry there was on-topic content that got dragged along, but the resulting subthread is pure distraction.

So many ways around paywalls. Doesn't always work, but almost always worth a try, it's so easy.

- The "web" link at the top of a comments page takes you to the google news search result.

- If DDG is your searcher, this takes you to the google news result:

  ctl-K[home]!gn[space][enter]

(ctl-k might have to be ctl-l if your location and search fields aren't combined)

- Mobile: select the title, search for it.

- Some sites are just inept. The Boston Globe throws up a blocking image asking you to register so that you can see the content that you've already completely downloaded. Just choose reader mode, or if that isn't available, then turn off styles.

- Search for the same story at some other site. Often Yahoo carries WSJ articles verbatim, without a paywall.

- Just read the HN comments.

- Pay.

- Don't read.

- ...

It's a few extra clicks, but WSJ articles are viewable in full if you come via google. So I always just select the title, right click to search.

HN also added the "web" link button which automatically searches google for you.

> clickbait to paywalls

What about this is clickbait? It's an accurate headline, but the article is behind a paywall. HN explicitly allows this.

We can start with the first sentence:

> A Texas banker who was so frustrated with regulators in 2011 that he gave up his banking charter and sold off his branches is now overseeing the sale of the rest of the company to Warburg Pincus LLC for about $300 million.

The title should at least get a year parenthetical on the Banker (who is not a banker [0]) claim, or maybe you can show me Depping's new charter?

[0] at the nonbank

Also, I now get the impression that this game plan is not so much a plan any more, but an operating enterprise since 2011.

Hate paywalls. Wish they weren't allowed here.

Right click on the covering graphic, inspect the element, and delete it.

All I can do is tap!

Tap the "web" link at the top of this page! :)

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