Please stop sharing paywalled links or alike?

Question

I cannot view tweets anymore, nor can I read articles that force me to buy subscription and so forth.Can HN please add a tag that say "paywalled" or something like that to warn me so I can simply avoid wasting a click?I literally cannot do anything about it, until someone shares either an archived version of it or an alternative page that bypasses the paywall.Cheers.

dang · Accepted Answer

HN has had a consistent approach to this for many years: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989. If there's a workaround, it's ok. Users usually post workarounds in the thread. This is also in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.
This system doesn't work perfectly by a long shot but it's better than any of the alternatives I'm aware of.
The situation with Twitter is weird because last I checked (and I'm not checking it often), their login wall was supposed to be temporary.

womitt · Answer

Put it to archive.is yourself - problem solved without large scale coordination

stefanos82 · Answer

The problem I have just witnessed from other posts is that via comments users have been sharing tweets which are now inaccessible.In other words, do we now have broken information if we cannot access any tweets so we could verify their validation?

justsomehnguy · Answer

There were many articles here which were not accessible for me, yet the the comments (or an occassional bypass link) gave enough of context for a meaningful discussion.

gAI · Answer

Agreed! I flag tweets, but that's probably inappropriate.

jewel · Answer

This has been an issue discussed for a long time. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989, as linked to from https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html, for some context as to why things are the way they are.I personally agree with the decision. The discussion generated is still valuable even when I can't read the whole article. A lot of the paywalled sites are generating content that's more valuable than the average blog, which is why they're able to survive behind a paywall to begin with.

WithinReason · Answer

This add-on bypasses 90% of paywalls:https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clea...

Dwedit · Answer

Some people may be using aggressive script blocking, and not even know that the site they submitted is paywalled.

Please stop sharing paywalled links or alike?

Put it to archive.is yourself - problem solved without large scale coordination

The problem I have just witnessed from other posts is that via comments users have been sharing tweets which are now inaccessible.
In other words, do we now have broken information if we cannot access any tweets so we could verify their validation?

There were many articles here which were not accessible for me, yet the the comments (or an occassional bypass link) gave enough of context for a meaningful discussion.

Agreed! I flag tweets, but that's probably inappropriate.

This add-on bypasses 90% of paywalls:
https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clea...

Some people may be using aggressive script blocking, and not even know that the site they submitted is paywalled.