This is just a reminder to everyone out there who gets annoyed by safety laws. They exist for a reason, and if you don’t want to follow them at least make sure to have the decency to only hurt yourself.
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A photo of a lighthouse against a cloudy sky with white text along the top and bottom. The text reads, “There is no meme. Regulations are written in blood. Cost cutting ensures negligence, negligence means death.”
Reblogging again because I just realized that if I had this advice in high school I would’ve never made a tumblr account.
Also works for most of those news sites like WSJ or NYT that only let you read a little bit, or block adblockers. Also some disable the scroll bar but if you go to the right side of the console after hitting F12 and look for the CSS element “overflow” and change it from “hidden” to “visible” then you can continue scrolling for free. Might have to click around on different parts of the page to find it, but it should work.
There’s also a Firefox/Chrome extension called Behind The Overlay that does all that with one mouse click. Used it for years; what a time saver.
And if you encounter a true paywall, use Archive.Today to bypass it. Just paste the paywalled url into the blue “search archived snapshots” box near the bottom: