I don't plan on ever paying for access to articles. When I click a link on HN that requires a subscription to read the article I just click the back button. It would be great to have a little dollar sign icon to save me the click and save the world the wasted bandwidth. Is there a browser plugin that will mark paywalled links or eliminate them?
This previous discussion may assist. <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26212645">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26212645</a>
Just use this <a href="https://archive.is/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://archive.is/</a> seems to work fairly well and however it's crawling the sites bypasses paywalls... at least for me.
The popular alternative (many paywalled articles will even have a top comment with this generated already) is to use the fabulous service <a href="https://archive.ph" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://archive.ph</a>
If you look at the comments there will usually be someone who has posted a link to an archive that bypasses paywalls.<p>But no, I haven't seen any existing extensions or userscripts for it
This extension will auto-bypass many paywalls: <a href="https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome">https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome</a>