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Pay wall. Anyone have a link to a cached version?


Best service for paywalled articles from my experience https://outline.com/TF7GJv


Thanks! But how does one know the url?


You go to the main website and plug in the paywalled URL.

The person you are responding to is just saving others that step.


I went back up top, clicked on the example button, and it yielded https://outline.com/6ps979 "The Fasinatng… Fascinating History of Autocorrect"

(From Wired in 2014, totally off-topic, but with a few amusing illustrations in case you need cheering up from the sadness here.)


oh.. I see.. outline bypasses the paywall because it strips all of the code away. I thought someone had to have access to the page without paywall first.


Prefix "outline.com/" to the URL.


Thanks!


A workaround is to prepend "http://facebook.com/l.php?u=" to the WSJ link


Just press the "web" link under the title of the article. It takes you to a Google search page and you can follow the link from there. News sites have to provide a free version of their articles for indexing and you can follow it to read pretty much any paywalled article you like.




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