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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.

It's probably just oversight by web devs.

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

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