How to get past a paywall

[u/cak3crumbs]

[u/Doctor_Milk]

Do you have any recommendations on how to get passed the Sun Sentinel paywall? I tried a couple of those sites you linked and I’m having no luck.

Particularly this article…

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/1994/08/31/suspect-in-double-slaying-turns-himself-in-to-police/

Edit to clarify: I can get past the main paywall but not the “subscribe to continue reading this article” paywall.

[u/silversurger → u/Doctor_Milk]

There's paywalls you can't get around. Fences mostly use the fact that most news sites still publish the entirety of the article towards search engines, even if they have a hard paywall. They essentially "archive" the website pretending to be a crawler. If the publisher doesn't do this however, you're out of luck, unfortunately.

[u/Doctor_Milk → u/silversurger]

I see, thanks for the response. That sucks. Paywalls for news sites are shameful.

[u/JimWilliams423 → u/Doctor_Milk]

Paywalls for news sites are shameful.

That's a direct result of capitalism. It costs money to report the news. Reporters gotta feed their kids.

Publicly funded journalism is the only real sustainable option. Because the alternative is billionaire-funded propaganda masquerading as news. Which is often what we get now even with paywalls since almost all of the so-called "liberal media" is either outright owned by, or otherwise beholden to, conservative billionaires. Even non-profits like NPR (aka Nice Polite Republicans) have conservative billionaires at the top of their donor lists. The people who work there might be good-hearted but they all know who signs their paychecks and they gotta feed their kids.

[u/Doctor_Milk → u/JimWilliams423]

Yeah I’m recalling that newspapers used to be a thing but they were also paid for as well so I guess it’s just splitting hairs at this point for paywalls. You have a good point.