Please don't post like this. It's extremely repetitive, and the question has been settled on HN for years. Paywalls suck, but if the site has a paywall workaround, then it's ok on HN. 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://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

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

I take them as a challenge to my web skills. More often than not the article is accessible in either a cache somewhere or by tricking the website into delivering it regardless of paywall. These sites want to be indexed by search engines. They want to be seen by potentially new customers.

Hatevertising - when I see NYT or bloomberg or washpost eyc, I know enough to skip them. Hackernew should block them = easy enough, members gain nothing from them, just a waste of time and people recall the block and skip them forever. I get so aggravated when I fail to detect one and I am presneted with yet more begging for bakshi...

nytimes paywall is an iq test, just disable js. You can do this in your browser settings or on ublock.