A decade old longread from Wired that also shines a light on how trivial it was to bypass mechanisms of some online services back in the day.

(I am not sure if Wired has this paywalled because I had the BPC extension installed but it opens properly with it).

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It opened fine for me so I don’t think there’s a paywall.

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Paywall for me :c

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bypass paywalls clean works

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Hopefully companies have got better at protecting against social engineering since 2012.

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