Chris Martin

Media Paywalls

I've previously wondered how sites like Outline accessed the content on paywalled sites. I'll admit I haven't looked at the site source in the past, but came across one paywalled article today from a major media company with <body data-theme="view" data-type="article" data-paywall-overlay-status="show">. Toggling the show to hide was all that was needed to view the content, as it was already all loaded behind the paywall modal. A good reminder not to be lazy with access control I suppose?