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The Sydney Morning Herald is my favourite news paper site in Australia. But sometimes I found above image overlapped on top of an article, and can't read that article for more than an hour. So I used to remember the title, and get back to it by searching the title.
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One article from today was Premier announces no-interest loan scheme to boost solar power, and this article is not available for non-subscribed users. So I decided to wait for sometime before returning to it, as I usually do.
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Meanwhile I've visited Facebook, and found same article was liked by the SMH Facebook Account. And when I followed the link, the same article just opened without any blocking overlapped ad on it!
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What? Facebook link can open limited article without overlaps? Cool! So I check the URL of the two, and found Facebook link has more data at the end. The magic is in this tail of URL: "?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR3FOHH4auOfZMJLJMfDB-eoLf0-Fla0L3M7KeuHi209FAuC4N9fVwzGhPE"
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I tried open the restricted page first, and confirm that is blocked by overlaps. Then I added the tail part of the URL, and found the page open successfully. Happy with this simple hack. I can read SMH without any limitation now.
The magic code at the end of the URL is changing. For today, the magic code in the post isn't work. But I found new magic code from the Facebook post from SMH quite easily. New code is "?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR2zYCsolut6UTbIWN2YOynvlGDgeLBgF6Qm8fJQNqJmrCRcLiDr9X4U54U".
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