Interesting, I didn’t expect that to work except at the sites that briefly flash the page and then hide it. But I tried it at wired.com, theverge.com, and theatlantic.com, and it seemed to work on all of them. Didn’t try Substack yet.
I had to realize that URL means the whole thing including https:// From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Josh Luthman Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2025 4:59 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] sharing stuff behind paywalls Use 12ft.io/URL <http://12ft.io/URL> On Sun, Mar 16, 2025 at 2:55 PM Bill Prince <part15...@gmail.com <mailto:part15...@gmail.com> > wrote: Each individual publisher most probably has their own rules, but also (probably) lacks the resources to police it. I know that Google has started paying to re-publish from some publishers. bp <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> On 3/16/2025 11:22 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote: Much of what I want to read now requires a subscription, and I have given up and subscribed to a few paywalled sites and some Substacks. Typically these let you read everything on their website and also receive email newsletters. What is the etiquette around sharing such content? Some let you send someone a free one month subscription, but that seems like selling subscriptions to your friends. If I just send a link to an article, I assume they will hit the paywall. In some cases you can cut and paste from the HTML or PDF but that’s a bit tedious and probably frowned upon. Should I just assume if other people want to see the content they will have their own subscriptions? Google News isn’t shy about linking to paywalled articles, that happens to me about half the time I click on a link, and I’m sorry, I’m not going to subscribe to Fortune or Barrons or WSJ or Rolling Stone or Mother Jones just to read the occasional article that appears in a news feed. -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com <mailto:AF@af.afmug.com> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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