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Comment on Ask HN: How does archive.is bypass paywalls?

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your browser usually downloads an entire article and certain elements are overlayed.

it's trivial to bypass most paywalls isn't it?

Not for some (I think the Wall Street Journal). Apparently the AMP version of the page does work this way for WSJ though, which is how IA gets around the paywall.

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