Flagged. I click the link, article loads and then a paywall steals it away. I come back to HN and click the &quot;web&quot; link and it takes me to Google, I click the article there and the article loads and then a paywall steals it away. I try again in an incognito window, the same thing happens.<p>I am sorry dang, but the web link simply doesn&#x27;t work sometimes. There is no way for a non-subscriber to read this. While I appreciate you believe there are still things worth sharing that are paywalled it should be made clear in the submission with [subscription only] or similar because otherwise you have me doing 4 or so pageloads for nothing. I.e. this isn&#x27;t acceptable no matter what your personal opinion is of paywalls. I.e. the paywall argument we&#x27;ve had in the past does not apply here. If there is no way around then it needs an extra piece of information to tell us that.<p>Ironically this whole palaver is similar to Kafka&#x27;s &quot;Before the Law&quot;. I would add that if you&#x27;ve lived for a substantial time in a country that has inherited the patterns of Habsburg bureaucracy, as I have, then some of Kafka&#x27;s work isn&#x27;t actually as far removed from reality as you might think.