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Originally Posted by nickredding
WSJ allows access to subscriber-only content if the referer is google news. There is a Firefox extension called RefControl that allows you to set whatever referer you want for a particular website, so if you set it to google news for wsj.com than you will have access to all of its subscriber-only content. Similarly, if you ensure the Calibre's requests to wsj.com have google news as a referer then you'll get all of the articles.
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I tested with the referer set to google.com, and it still didn't work. Nor would it work from Google's search results. I'm confident it's because of other restrictions I have set, but I didn't want to track down what the problem was unless I was sure that this old trick still worked.