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Paywall. I would love a feature to omit all paywall sites. Like what kagi has!

Sometimes, if Im quick enough, pressing the reader view on my phone shows the whole article. It doesn’t work on every site just some that are lazy and just throw a divider up on the screen without hiding the actual content. That worked for me here. Otherwise, I just use the archive links HN users post.

Somebody posted this in HN, if use save it as the URL of a bookmark and run it on a page with a divider on screen it will delete it often enough that I keep on my bookmarks bar. javascript:(function()%7Bdocument.querySelectorAll(%22body%20%22).forEach(function(node)%7Bif(%5B%22fixed%22%2C%22sticky%22%5D.includes(getComputedStyle(node).position))%7Bnode.parentNode.removeChild(node)%7D%7D)%3Bdocument.querySelectorAll(%22html%20%22).forEach(function(node)%7Bvar%20s%3DgetComputedStyle(node)%3Bif(%22hidden%22%3D%3D%3Ds%5B%22overflow%22%5D)%7Bnode.style%5B%22overflow%22%5D%3D%22visible%22%7Dif(%22hidden%22%3D%3D%3Ds%5B%22overflow-x%22%5D)%7Bnode.style%5B%22overflow-x%22%5D%3D%22visible%22%7Dif(%22hidden%22%3D%3D%3Ds%5B%22overflow-y%22%5D)%7Bnode.style%5B%22overflow-y%22%5D%3D%22visible%22%7D%7D)%3Bvar%20htmlNode%3Ddocument.querySelector(%22html%22)%3BhtmlNode.style%5B%22overflow%22%5D%3D%22visible%22%3BhtmlNode.style%5B%22overflow-x%22%5D%3D%22visible%22%3BhtmlNode.style%5B%22overflow-y%22%5D%3D%22visible%22%7D)()%3B%0A

Gonna try it out.

Disabling javascript generally works too. I actually browse default js disabled, and if it seems like a site isn't working, I enable JavaScript for that domain.

You're overstressing.

Open the page. Let the article load. Enter reader mode.

Doesn't matter if you weren't fast enough. Once in reader mode, if it rendered the paywall in reader mode, just refresh.

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This at least works on Firefox — reader mode persists through the page refresh. Can't speak for chromium

Yeah I hear you. I’m pretty sure though I’ve come across sites that on a timed refresh have truncated the article. So the whole article was there until some process ran to check sign in status. Maybe that doesn’t happen anymore. I haven’t really noticed.

A timed cut won't matter when you refresh with reader mode enabled before the refresh. None of that logic can execute in reader mode.

That's why it works.

Use the link someone else posted.

https://archive.ph/OwcRL

captcha loop

The archive gents don't like CloudFlare DNS (or something along those lines).

are you using an adblocker or ad-filtering VPN such as Blokada or Pi-hole? Then temporarily turn them off, solve the captcha one more time. Then it should successfully progress to archive.ph/.to memento.

The F9/F5 two-step is why I still use Firefox on desktop. Does anything like that work on iOS?

F5 is enough of a meme that I know it despite being a mac user; what does F9 do in this context?

hmm, I don't know either. F3 .. F7 and F10 are listed in [1], but not F8 and F9, from a quick skim.

Toggling reader mode is Ctrl + Alt + R apparently.

Edit: works for me.

1. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/keyboard-shortcuts-perf...

Must toggle reader mode

F9 toggles reader mode. Frequently the paywalled content disappears as soon as you hit F9, but will reappear if you hit F5 while reader mode is in effect.

Wouldn't it be trivial for HN to automatically create an alternative archive link?

Google got into trouble for copyright reasons for quoting too much of news stories in search results, so I assume this will cause HN (and the sites doing the paywall removal) some expensive trouble as soon as anyone with relevant power notices.

There is an extension that I use that helps with those. It is inconsistent but it does give you cached links at the top when available. Bypass Paywalls on gitlab. Open-source.

It's particularly annoying that normally the OP leaves it to somebody else to fix their bug...

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