[ProtectOurFreedom]

Using “Paywall Killer” is a bit confusing. For a WSJ article this morning, it killed their cookies, then redirected me to the WSJ Twitter feed which yielded nothing.

I tried it a second time, then clicked on the third (of three) hits in Twitter and it did open the WSJ page. Hallelujah! I used the “Reader” button in Safari to kill all the crap on the page and I got to a clean page of text only.

Is that normal behavior / operation? i.e., to redirect to Twitter or some other page?

[Bon mots]

WSJ is a tough one now. It can no longer be cracked with soft paywall killers.

• It used to work by sending it to Archive.io - but they blocked that.
• Then Outline.com worked for it. That also got blocked.
• Then if you went via Twitter, you could hit the first link and that would work if you first cleared all cookies and the cache... that was blocked a week or so ago.

So now you can no longer read the WSJ for free unless someone else comes up with a hack.

[Bon mots]

The Twitter redirect trick sometimes still works for the WSJ. I have no idea why.

If I knew, I could code it to be more consistent!

[Bon mots]

Is that normal behavior / operation? i.e., to redirect to Twitter or some other page?

Yes. It checks the URL and if it's FT.com it redirects via Facebook which avoids the paywall. If it's the WSJ, it tries a Twitter redirect which still sometimes works if all cookies are cleared and the cache refreshed! Other online content has other solutions all are automatic.

You can read:

• FT.com
• The New York Times
• WashingtonPost
• Bloomberg
• BUsiness Week
• The Economist
• Wired.com

And many, many more all while maintaining the economic boycott of the corrupt and biased MSM.

There are a lot of other tricks in those bookmarklets... killing cookies and clearing the cache opens up a lot!