Does everyone here have a paid subscription to The Verge? I’m on lemmy. There’s never or rarely, a post here that isn’t behind a paywall. Is there some trick I am missing out on?
If the site shows you the whole article and then throws up some annoying popup that prevents you from reading it, it’s almost certainly using JavaScript to do that. (This is most of them.)
In these instances, disable JavaScript for that site. Google will help you figure out how to do that for your specific browser. Once JS is disabled, reload the page, if you haven’t already.
Slightly preachy sidebar: it’s safer to browse the internet with javascript off and enable it only as needed. There are probably browser extensions for whatever browser you use to make toggling javascript for a specific site less annoying than digging into the site settings.
Edit: some browsers have a built in “reading mode” that can circumvent these paywalls. Not always, though.
Does everyone here have a paid subscription to The Verge? I’m on lemmy. There’s never or rarely, a post here that isn’t behind a paywall. Is there some trick I am missing out on?
If the site shows you the whole article and then throws up some annoying popup that prevents you from reading it, it’s almost certainly using JavaScript to do that. (This is most of them.)
In these instances, disable JavaScript for that site. Google will help you figure out how to do that for your specific browser. Once JS is disabled, reload the page, if you haven’t already.
Slightly preachy sidebar: it’s safer to browse the internet with javascript off and enable it only as needed. There are probably browser extensions for whatever browser you use to make toggling javascript for a specific site less annoying than digging into the site settings.
Edit: some browsers have a built in “reading mode” that can circumvent these paywalls. Not always, though.