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Originally Posted by Percivale
Thank you Peter for your response
So I was wrong in my thinking.
Maybe I should conclude the following:
There is probably some blocking encryption/ coding in html which appears in articles which are pay-walled.
This encryption is not present in free articles from this website.
Therefore, paid articles cannot be scraped into Pocket but free articles can be scraped and sent into Kobo.
Is there any hope to solve it if I send the links to the Pocket helpdesk?
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I've tried different tricks to bypass this limitation with no success. Usually, sites that do this also block ad-free reading mode. And also, they don't usually let you print the article, which on rare occasions can be sent to Pocket instead of the main site. No solutions that I have found have been easier than just reading the darn article on the website. LOL There comes a point when researching a workaround takes more time than just reading the original articles. For example, I have successfully copy and pasted one of these stubborn articles into Pages and saved it as an epub, which I saved to my Calibre watch folder, then downloaded into my Kobo, but honestly, I was just being stubborn, too. It's hardly worth the effort!
This issue, along with Pocket not designating a webpage as an article, makes Pocket less useful to me on my Kobos. The Pocket app on my iPad displays all articles saved for later, even if they are treated like web pages instead of articles. So I tend to use Pocket there instead.
What I'd like to see for Pocket on Kobo is support for the beta web browser. That way these troublesome websites could still be accessed instead of filtered out, though that would require a WiFi connection.