There isn't one. As far as I know, no one really knows for sure how they bypass all these paywalls. (Most credible theory I heard: They actually just pay for the subscriptions.)
Many sites including Bloomberg have evolved such that even archive.today don’t have the full text of any articles. They’re doing no giveaways whatsoever.
Most paywalls just allow search engines to read their content just fine. Because they do want discoverability, they want their cake and eat it.
There's a few publications that don't even do that though and archive.is is very good at bypassing them so I do imagine they use logins for those, but for the masses of sites it's not currently necessary.
Has people's ability to read messages and formulate sensible replies been going down of late? I see this kind of meaningless replies more and more often these days.
There isn't one. As far as I know, no one really knows for sure how they bypass all these paywalls. (Most credible theory I heard: They actually just pay for the subscriptions.)
Many sites including Bloomberg have evolved such that even archive.today don’t have the full text of any articles. They’re doing no giveaways whatsoever.
Ghostarchive does a decent job for the same sites in my experience: https://ghostarchive.org/
Update: hmm seems like they're involved in this whole thing too somehow, how strange:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46629646
Most paywalls just allow search engines to read their content just fine. Because they do want discoverability, they want their cake and eat it.
There's a few publications that don't even do that though and archive.is is very good at bypassing them so I do imagine they use logins for those, but for the masses of sites it's not currently necessary.
You can't impersonate Google. Sites check the source IP and they don't overlap with Google Cloud.
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Then why hasn't anyone built a client-side browser addon that impersonates a suitable search engine?
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What's your problem with that theory?
Has people's ability to read messages and formulate sensible replies been going down of late? I see this kind of meaningless replies more and more often these days.
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None
I think there are multiple hurdles that make a new competitor very unlikely.
The first one is money. You need lots of it to run such an operation (servers, IPs, paying to bypass all these paywalls, etc.).
The second one is the legality, as no one wants to be hunted by the FBI, especially not for running a website that is also losing money.