Show HN: A bookmarklet to remove clickgates on New York Times, Medium, etc. https://ift.tt/2rxLHKV

Show HN: A bookmarklet to remove clickgates on New York Times, Medium, etc. Recently i stumbled on too many clickgates on the Medium blog Towards Data science. Considering that most people publish to share knowledge on Medium and are driven into putting their content behind a paywall, without actually getting paid for it, including myself. I felt like Medium is running the academic publishing scheme. Get free content and get paid for it. So I decided to create a small script to bypass the paywall on Medium, it turns out it also works on other newssites. Heres the website: https://ift.tt/2t7bmdV For the curious I will explain the technical aspects in a comment. December 11, 2019 at 01:59AM