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cshenoy on Aug 24, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: DoubleRecall (YC S11) Turns Paywalls Into Advertis...

I like the idea but someone technically minded enough could scrape the article from the source (at least from the demo CNN page they have up) [1]. But then again, that would be a lot of work especially compared to typing in two to three words.

[1] http://cnnmoney.transformer.doublerecall.com/2011/08/24/news...

mihar on Aug 24, 2011 [–]

You're correct and this is done by design. We're not a security feature but a soft-monetization one.

99% of people aren't technical enough to go through any other way than retyping.

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