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mike-cardwell on May 7, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Spouses of Some H-1B Visa Holders to Be Allowed to...

If you're a Firefox user, install RefControl, and then spoof the referer for any request to this website as "http://www.google.com/". This gets around the paywall; I just tried it. This works with most paywalls.

On the other hand, I don't think it should be permitted to post articles here that are behind a paywall. That's just my opinion though.

andylei on May 7, 2014 [–]

or you can just type the headline into google

mike-cardwell on May 7, 2014 | [–]

You would have to do that every time the paywall appears. Alternatively, you set up my solution once, and then it works transparently in future.

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