• Album@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    79
    ·
    2 months ago

    Most paywalls know this and don’t load the content at all. Don’t do it because it doesn’t work

    • orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      49
      ·
      2 months ago

      Yep. They’ve gotten smarter. Some of the plugins and tools websites use to create a paywall will actually only render part of the article to the browser before the user signs up. They used to simply mask it and you could remove the paywall via editing some CSS in the browser’s dev tools to see all of the text, but that’s not the case anymore.

      Source: web dev for ~20 years.

      • jbrains
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        18
        ·
        2 months ago

        Server-side paywalling? Everything old is new again.

  • Tetsuo@jlai.lu
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    47
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    2 months ago

    My strategy with paywalls is to close the tab and go somewhere else. It works fine and is a great way to let the website owner this bullshit make them lose viewers and visibility.

  • fl42v@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    15
    ·
    2 months ago

    Sure, no problem… I’ll just trigger reader mode in Firefox instead

  • Samsy@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    12
    ·
    2 months ago

    I copy and paste the paywall link to archive.is. Most of the time they have a paywall-free backup which is readable.

  • limerod@reddthat.com
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    7
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    2 months ago

    Thanks for the heads up. This will make sure we never commit such criminal activity ever again.

    • style99@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      2 months ago

      Journalism has been dead for ages. Now, satire (like The Onion), that’s informative.

      • electricprism@lemmy.ml
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        2 months ago

        What’s next, you’ll tell me Burger King News coverage of The Hamburgler wreaking havok on the city is false too? If we don’t act now to increase our anti-hamburgler budget all of Frace as we know it will be gone! We can’t afford to not act!!!

    • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      2 months ago

      Because modern “journalists” only know how to copy and paste from other “news sites” and random social media posts.