Is there a plugin/addon to block paywalled links on HN?

by graybeardhacker on 10/23/2023, 8:33 PM with 7 comments

I don't plan on ever paying for access to articles. When I click a link on HN that requires a subscription to read the article I just click the back button. It would be great to have a little dollar sign icon to save me the click and save the world the wasted bandwidth. Is there a browser plugin that will mark paywalled links or eliminate them?

  • by helph67 on 10/23/2023, 8:55 PM

    This previous discussion may assist. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26212645

  • by june07 on 10/24/2023, 10:52 PM

    Just use this https://archive.is/ seems to work fairly well and however it's crawling the sites bypasses paywalls... at least for me.

  • by solardev on 10/24/2023, 8:00 PM

    Can we throw twitter links in that bucket too?

  • by cmrx64 on 10/23/2023, 8:54 PM

    The popular alternative (many paywalled articles will even have a top comment with this generated already) is to use the fabulous service https://archive.ph

  • by KomoD on 10/23/2023, 10:35 PM

    If you look at the comments there will usually be someone who has posted a link to an archive that bypasses paywalls.

    But no, I haven't seen any existing extensions or userscripts for it

  • by solardev on 10/24/2023, 7:59 PM

    This extension will auto-bypass many paywalls: https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome

  • by switch007 on 10/24/2023, 8:59 AM

    I'd love to see auto pinning of comments which post a paywall bypass link