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Many HN submissions have an archive.is link as their first comment because the original submission is paywalled. I used to think, why can't people just pay for subscriptions?

Then I found that the New Yorker - for which I just renewed my print and online subscription! - doesn't seem to recognise my account and so when I click their emails I get a login wall. Infuriating. I asked Cursor to build me a Chrome extension to automatically find the corresponding archive.is link for a given page and 30 mins later, this is the result.

I haven't tried this on many domains but it seems to work fine on New Yorker and a few others. Comments/PRs welcome. This doesn't ship with a list of supported domains as you can configure your own. I don't intend to submit to Chrome webstore but I don't see why they wouldn't accept - their ToS prohibits bypassing paywall extensions and although I think this is "dual use" I don't want to put my developer account with Google out of good standing.

More than anything I wanted to put this out there as a good example of the sort of itch-scratching that previously required several days and can now be done in a few minutes - without writing a single line of code. (I did have to read quite a lot of JS to give the model feedback but no direct edits at all).

Belated Happy NY to all!

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