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, 02:20, October 17, 2021Created page with "<div style="font-size:240%; background:green; text-align:center; border:3px solid #000000">'''DISCLAIMER: THIS DOES NOT WORK IN EVERY CIRCUMSTANCE</div> Let's say you found a..."
<div style="font-size:240%; background:green; text-align:center; border:3px solid #000000">'''DISCLAIMER: THIS DOES NOT WORK IN EVERY CIRCUMSTANCE</div>
Let's say you found a really interesting article from, say, ''[[The New York Times]]'', ''[[The Washington Post]]'', and are looking forward to reading it, only to click on it and find a paywall blocking access. You can learn here on a simple trick to bypass the paywall in the majority of circumstances for free.
Here's the process:
#Open up https://archive.is/.
#Enter the URL of the article you wish to read into the red box.
#Wait for the process to complete.
And here's the explanation on why the trick works: when opening a news source with a paywall, the latter usually does not pop-up until very briefly after the moment you open the article. The emphasis here is that the pop-up shows ''after'' the exact moment the webpage is opened, because the manner in which archive.is archives webpages can be explained by either or both of the following two suppositions:
#Pop-ups and certain features in an archived page don't function as they normally do in the actual webpage. For example, when archiving a tweet which contains a video, the video can't be played in the archived page.
#When archive.is archives a webpage, it only inspects what it looks like when immediately opened, and not what it may look like several moments after opening it.
Now, not all paywalls can be bypassed, unfortunately. Only paywalls that act as pop-ups can be bypassed when using the archive.is trick. If you're trying to access an article from ''The New York Times'' from a century ago, the content you can see for free is restricted, and there is often a link saying "View Full Article In TimesMachine."
Let's say you found a really interesting article from, say, ''[[The New York Times]]'', ''[[The Washington Post]]'', and are looking forward to reading it, only to click on it and find a paywall blocking access. You can learn here on a simple trick to bypass the paywall in the majority of circumstances for free.
Here's the process:
#Open up https://archive.is/.
#Enter the URL of the article you wish to read into the red box.
#Wait for the process to complete.
And here's the explanation on why the trick works: when opening a news source with a paywall, the latter usually does not pop-up until very briefly after the moment you open the article. The emphasis here is that the pop-up shows ''after'' the exact moment the webpage is opened, because the manner in which archive.is archives webpages can be explained by either or both of the following two suppositions:
#Pop-ups and certain features in an archived page don't function as they normally do in the actual webpage. For example, when archiving a tweet which contains a video, the video can't be played in the archived page.
#When archive.is archives a webpage, it only inspects what it looks like when immediately opened, and not what it may look like several moments after opening it.
Now, not all paywalls can be bypassed, unfortunately. Only paywalls that act as pop-ups can be bypassed when using the archive.is trick. If you're trying to access an article from ''The New York Times'' from a century ago, the content you can see for free is restricted, and there is often a link saying "View Full Article In TimesMachine."