You see the whole article, others don’t. Publishers sometimes decide by your IP, your location etc. if you are allowed to read it freely (also putting rate limits up, so if enough people in your vicinity already saw it you will hit the paywall reasoning that you are already interested and more willing to pay). Or they simply put up the paywall later based on how popular an article is.
Or in short: a lot of new links have paywalls because the people posting something didn’t even know there was one.
PS: many people regularly clicking news from all over the world also often have addons, plugins and filters running that circumvent a lot of those paywalls automatically, so we sometimes tend to forget about them…
I believe that saying you are explicitly providing a way to get around a paywall is technically against the rules of this community or instance because the mods/admins don’t want to be taken down for copyright stuff
However, if the above article doesn’t seem to be loading correctly for you for some mysterious reason (e.g. who knows, perhaps there’s some networking problem or a server outage somewhere), then it’s perfectly fine for me to offer you an archive mirror to help you workaround this purely technical issue - https://archive.is/s0EUX
Why do well more than half the news links in this community have pay walls?
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/26/world/politics/us-nonwhites-trump-south-african-refugees/
This also has a paywall 🙃
I see the whole article?
Then there is your answer:
You see the whole article, others don’t. Publishers sometimes decide by your IP, your location etc. if you are allowed to read it freely (also putting rate limits up, so if enough people in your vicinity already saw it you will hit the paywall reasoning that you are already interested and more willing to pay). Or they simply put up the paywall later based on how popular an article is.
Or in short: a lot of new links have paywalls because the people posting something didn’t even know there was one.
PS: many people regularly clicking news from all over the world also often have addons, plugins and filters running that circumvent a lot of those paywalls automatically, so we sometimes tend to forget about them…
Fair enough.
I believe that saying you are explicitly providing a way to get around a paywall is technically against the rules of this community or instance because the mods/admins don’t want to be taken down for copyright stuff
However, if the above article doesn’t seem to be loading correctly for you for some mysterious reason (e.g. who knows, perhaps there’s some networking problem or a server outage somewhere), then it’s perfectly fine for me to offer you an archive mirror to help you workaround this purely technical issue - https://archive.is/s0EUX