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How To Read An Article On Axios.com For Free

Or… How to easily get around the paywall

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Axios.com is a site which, in their words:

“Axios gets you smarter, faster on what matters.”

A great site with a balanced approach to reporting on the news (sometimes…)

I Love Reading…

I was doing some research for an article on Medium and a link took me to an article on Axios.com: 1 big thing: Sizing up Medium

Happily scrolled down the page until I was stopped…

Screenshot of Axios.com and the paywall

hmmmmmmm….

I did the whole ‘Inspect element and delete the overlay thing’ to no avail, rather than waste too much time seeing what was going on — I just clicked on the ‘Reader mode’ for Firefox and I was in.

However, this is not of much use to most people on the interwebs as they use the Chrome browser. (BTW — stop…