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   Misty (misty@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 30-May-2026 20:05:53 JST Misty

   I may be annoyed by how unnecessarily JS-centric a lot of news sites are, but on the plus side most of them serve up their content on initial load and *delete* it with JS if it’s paywalled so reader mode accidentally bypasses a ton of paywalls these days

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     abadidea (0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 30-May-2026 20:05:52 JST abadidea

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     @misty there was one the other day where the paywall was reasonably effective, so I checked if it had served archive.org the whole article, and it had. Only to discover that after a few seconds, the archived page’s javascript would realize it wasn’t running on its expected domain, and nuke the page. Reader mode didn’t work.

     I didn’t feel like going through all the effort of turning javascript off and back on, so I reloaded and quickly control-a control-c’d the text before it got nuked so I could paste it into a word processor 😂

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 30-May-2026 20:07:33 JST Rich Felker

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     • abadidea

     @0xabad1dea @misty If you have UBO, it's a single click in the UBO dropdown panel. In case you didn't know and this is helpful in the future.