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mr_mitmyesterday at 8:28 AM4 repliesview on HN

There isn't one. As far as I know, no one really knows for sure how they bypass all these paywalls. (Most credible theory I heard: They actually just pay for the subscriptions.)


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otterleyyesterday at 2:40 PM

Many sites including Bloomberg have evolved such that even archive.today don’t have the full text of any articles. They’re doing no giveaways whatsoever.

ebilgeniusyesterday at 4:44 PM

Ghostarchive does a decent job for the same sites in my experience: https://ghostarchive.org/

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wolvoleoyesterday at 12:52 PM

Most paywalls just allow search engines to read their content just fine. Because they do want discoverability, they want their cake and eat it.

There's a few publications that don't even do that though and archive.is is very good at bypassing them so I do imagine they use logins for those, but for the masses of sites it's not currently necessary.

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chrisjjyesterday at 11:05 AM

What's your problem with that theory?

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