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

5 points by graybeardhacker 2y ago ↗ HN

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?

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cmrx64 2y ago ↗

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

helph67 2y ago ↗

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

KomoD 2y ago ↗

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

switch007 2y ago ↗

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

solardev 2y ago ↗

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

solardev 2y ago ↗

Can we throw twitter links in that bucket too?

june07 2y ago ↗

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