Hacker News Reader

The new york times is easily read by disabling all javascript and cookies...

Which is really the way you should surf the intertubes anyway.

Do you just enjoy being a (lonely) data harvesting resource?

Do you really "disable all javascript"?

I think the broader point is to prevent them from getting in front of eyeballs in the first place. If a view of hackernews is available where paywalled content can't make it to the top, this puts the onus on people promoting paywalls to change their behavior.

> this puts the onus on people promoting paywalls to change their behavior.

The amount of onus this delivers has to be calculated using infinitesimals. Especially compared to the amount of money delivered by paying subscribers.

It would also be nice if the original submitter (especially frequent ones, who should know better, tho this isn't aimed at anybody in particular including the op) make the effort to post a non-paywalled link at the same time in the first comment rather than the "hit-and-run" approach of many of them. Or if it's a common news story then post from another site instead.

I'd be happy with a browser extension that replaces all the paywalled links on HN with archive links.