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That's a way to lose flagging rights on HN. This issue is indeed annoying, but has long been settled on HN: If there's a workaround, it's ok. Users usually post workarounds in the thread. This is in the FAQ at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html and there's more explanation here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

Now that you know this, can you please stop posting off-topic comments like this one and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19299014?

Democracy dies in darkness!

Because that's easier than feeding the link to archive.is and posting the archive link? ;)

> Are paywalls ok?

It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds.

In comments, it's ok to ask how to read an article and to help other users do so. But please don't post complaints about paywalls. Those are off topic.

Before I saw this submission I posted from Chronicle of Higher Ed. But I don't know if it's paywalled or not since I subscribe to that (and to WaPo, fwiw).

Also, complaining about paywalls assumes that everyone on HN doesn't subscribe to the publication in question. Some of us actually support journalism by paying for news.

The NYT, for example, is running a special right now at $2/week. Considering the number of Times articles that land on the HN front page, it seems like a worthwhile investment.

But then I'd have to actually read the articles.

I didn’t run into a paywall. Are you on mobile or desktop/laptop?

Free option:

> Read a limited number of articles each month

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