Frankly this goes to show how Hackernews urgently needs some proper product/ux/ui person to overhaul it. This type of comment shows up like clockwork for every single WSJ link. The web shortcut is clearly not visible/understood.

Why not highlight it for known domains like wsj.com and others

It's like paying for a WSJ subscription doesn't even cross HN's mind. At some point people should acknowledge the frequency of paywall complaints might mean there's lots of quality content.

I refuse to pay Murdoch on principle.

I find it ironic that the site where I see the absolute most complaining about one of the easiest paywalls to bypass is on Hacker News.

I'm pretty sure it's not HN's job to work around WSJ's decision to require an account to view their articles.

Why don't people just stop submitting WSJ articles?

> Why don't people just stop submitting WSJ articles?

Ehrm, huh? That is your proposed solution?

Just a SWAG: The articles are interesting. This claim can be backed up by the fact that WSJ articles show up on the front page fairly frequently.

I'm not sure what SWAG means but WSJ clearly doesn't want news aggregator visitors to view their articles for free. So the complaints should be directed at the WSJ, not the news aggregator.

I don't have a solution I'm just saying it's WSJ's fault here, not HN.

The Web shortcut doesn't reliably work.

This is a great chrome extension to solve that problem: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/referer-control/hn...

Try going through Google. Seems to work for me: https://www.google.com/search?q=Sputtering+Startups+Weigh+on...

Many news sites give special favours to search traffic.

use google chrome and click the link in incognito mode

Same. A recurrent issue with WSJ articles.

Sometimes the "web" link works. Sometimes it doesn't.

That's the issue. It's blocking traffic erratically. It doesn't help to go through google, or to go through private browser + Google :(