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Link has a paywall (well, mandatory registration: "To keep reading this story, create a free account").

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https://archive.is/pY6Do

Worth the trouble

Dang, archive.is is still blocking DNS requests from Cloudflare... [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828317

Or clear your cookies for the site, and you get three new ones.

Opening Medium in an incognito window has so far away been enough for me to get past that.

Also, are we due for a snappier phrase than "requires registration"? Loginwall, registerwall, accountwall?

In my mind it's still a paywall, it just costs time + attention + privacy.

Very much this. I think it's worth fighting against anyone who tries to dismiss these as not actually "pay"walls just because they don't require literal money, although I'd understand if other people want to head off that line of apologism in advance.

> Link has a paywall

I'm not seeing a paywall in Firefox with NoScript or in Dillo (which has no JavaScript support).

Can confirm that Medium does not have any walls with Firefox+NoScript.

You two might not have used up your free stories. I'm seeing the following:

> You have 2 free stories left this month. Sign up and get an extra one for free.

Presumably, if I read 2 more stories on medium, I'll get a paywall, too. Unless I sign up, then I'd get a paywall after reading one more story.

I've definitely read more than two stories with NoScript enabled. I also block cookies, that may be whats doing it.

Edit: Just went to past submissions from medium.com, opened up about seven. No paywall showing.

I'll second "I think it's cookies, but can't authoritatively confim". (I use wget, which doesn't save cookies across processes unless explicitly told to.)

How's using wget for standard web browsing? I've thought about trying but haven't had motivation.

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