I started to notice some people posting NYT, Bloomberg or other websites with hard paywalls, that leads to people in the comments that are unable to read the article to discuess the headline without any analysis and some times spreading misinformation, which cannot be countered by the article, due to the paywall.
Which bring me to this: Why does no one thought about blocking hard paywalled articles for the sake of quality of discussion?
How accessible is this to smart phone users?
While it’s kind of easy to bypass paywalls on desktop, it’s hard to do it on smart phones.
Just tested it now, extremely accessible.
There are extensions on Firefox for Android that do this for you. I think it’s very accessible.
Type your favorite archive site mirror into the address bar (I’m partial to archive.is) then add a forward slash and then the full URL. I do this on my phone all the time.
You’ll also often find someone posts an archive link on any articles with a hard pay wall - if you see such a link give them some internet points so they feel warm and fuzzy.