Re: Abbreviated newspaper articles with eww

[tomas]

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On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 02:50:17PM +0200, Michael Heerdegen wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I want to read newspaper articles on "www.sueddeutsche.de" with eww.
> But some articles are appearing incomplete (there is a paywall on the
> site, but the articles I mean are not behind it).
> 
> Here is an example:
> 
> http://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/reparationszahlungen-gewolltes-missverstaendnis-1.2463623
> 
> With firefox or w3m, I get a complete article.  With eww, it is
> abbreviated after:
> 
> | Bundesrepublik gebe endlich zu, Zahlungen prüfen zu müssen. Muss sie ...
> 
> Not all articles are affected, only some.

Works for me (I know, I know...)

Never tried eww up to now (yikes!), so this was a handy chance. So don't
expect too much knowledge.

Some sites have a kind of "soft" paywall, which shows you (or whatever
their fuzzball of code thinks is "you") a limited number of articles
in full, after that they come in mutilated. The ellipsis in your quote
seems to hint at some "deliberate" action and not at an accident (the
version I got just continues there, no ellipsis).

Regards
- -- tomás
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