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Meg Whitman to Step Down as HPE CEO

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184 points praneshp | 4 comments | 21 Nov 17 21:59 UTC | HN request time: 0.939s | source
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pcl ◴[21 Nov 17 22:09 UTC] No.15752071[source]▶
Non-paywalled: http://archive.is/jyavW
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1. m-p-3 ◴[22 Nov 17 14:32 UTC] No.15757000[source]▶
I use this as a bookmarklet to bypass some paywalls

  javascript:window.location="https://m.facebook.com/l.php?u="+encodeURIComponent(window.location.href);
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2. digital_trench ◴[22 Nov 17 15:09 UTC] No.15757280[source]▶
This is genius. Can you explain how it works?
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3. quantumwannabe ◴[22 Nov 17 16:30 UTC] No.15758077[source]▶
Websites don't want to block their articles from being shared on Facebook, so they allow traffic referred by FB through. That link is Facebook's warning to users that a link they clicked on will take them offsite.
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4. heisenbit ◴[22 Nov 17 16:48 UTC] No.15758233{3}[source]▶
It is one of the precursors to loosing net-neutrality i.e. a tax on non FB users who pay with their privacy.