Legal workarounds, as far as I know. The only reason the Google trick works is because the sites allow it. Note that they don&#x27;t allow it directly from HN, the point being they control it, not Google.<p>Cookies and private windows only work because the sites have a free views counter. They could stop at zero if they wanted.<p>I can&#x27;t see the HN mods advocating anything illegal.<p>If every article on the homepage was paywalled, it would because the balance had tipped in sites&#x27; favor, and they no longer feel compelled to allow workarounds. Almost everyone that you might think could charge for their service would be charging, the result being  every&#x2F;most articles on HN&#x27;s homepage paywalled.<p>In that future, people would commonly subscribe to news sites. I can imaging that aggregating subscriptions services would come to be, something like cable, where you pay one low-ish price and have access to lots of sites, without having to manage individual subscriptions.<p>And now that I think about that more, that could end up <i>replacing</i> what cable is now, and the giant broadband companies would either become the dumb pipes that they truly are, or become those subscription aggregators.