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Without JS I just got a blank page. Enabled the main domain temporarily and I could see the article but then I was prompted to login with Facebook or Google. :D

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For this and many troublesome sites, selecting reader view as soon as content loads evades the paywall.

Or for Wired, which apparently doesn't offer reader view, hitting escape as soon as content loads.

I'm curious if you or someone else could explain exactly how "reader view" gets around paywall and login walls. This feature for me has become invaluable.

The body text is all still there. It’s just being hidden by some piece of JavaScript that reader view ignores.

It's probably just oversight by web devs.

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