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

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What happens when you first load a paywalled article? 9 times out of 10 it shows the entire article before the JS that runs on the page pops up the paywall. Seems like it probably just takes a snapshot prior to JS paywall execution combined with the Google referrer trick or something along those lines.

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