You wouldn’t browse the web from the command line would you? Well, today I found yet another reason to.
Paywalls.
We all hate them. I get it, companies want to be paid for their products. But do I really need to sign up for a subscription to see one article I am interested in? You would think big news outlets would figure out a way to use micro-transactions to allow a-la-carte access to articles by now. Nope.
And that’s where Links comes in.
Links is a command line web browser, and as it doesn’t support JavaScript, websites using JavaScript to block users may not be able to. At least in my testing you can bypass some paywalls. I suspect there might be other uses for that too, but I’ll leave it to your imagination. Just don’t do anything illegal with it.
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