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Fishermen and reindeer herders in northern Siberia have long snacked on raw, frozen fish and meat. Shaved thin and often dipped in sauce, the dish is one of Russia’s hidden delicacies.
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- Title
- Arctic Dining: Think Frozen Sashimi, With a Side of Reindeer Blood (Published 2020)
- Published
- Feb 9 2020
- Word count
- 1444 words
Does anyone know why sites like nytimes.com will attempt to paywall (or just sign-up wall?) you but still send the entire article over the wire? Anyone on Firefox can just hit the reader mode button and bypass the block.
There isn't any way to do a "soft" paywall (one that allows a few free articles monthly or something similar) that can't also be circumvented pretty easily anyway, so they obviously just aren't very worried about it. That'll be a very small group of users overall, and people that want to circumvent it will be able to regardless, so it's not worth putting much effort into trying to fight any individual method.
Sites with a "hard" paywall like The Information don't have any simple ways to circumvent because, like you said, they avoid sending the text.
I'd think they would use a supercookie to track how many articles you've seen. Are those illegal under laws like GDPR?
You can also disable js to get around almost all paywalls.
The soft paywall system is trivial for technical folks — but we are the minority.