It's a WSJ original report, and the WSJ uses a paywall for everybody but Google News readers.

You can either find the same article in Google News; use a bookmarklet like Wait, Google Sent Me; or read The Verge's rehash of the WSJ article.

They also don't paywall organic search traffic.

Search the headline in google, then click the wsj link. If you're using chrome just highlight headline, right click, search, and then click wsj link.

Because it's easy to get past the paywall:

https://h4labs.wordpress.com/2015/09/14/hacker-news-faq-1-ho...

Oh, and it seems the story was completely fabricated by the WSJ. So we got one and a half paragraphs of lies, and a bunch of advice on how to read the rest of the lies in the article that may or may not work anymore...

thanks

Take the URL and paste it into google to read it. Works for most paywall sites.

It's not broken. Sometimes real newspapers that hire real reporters and do real reporting charge for their content. Not everything has to be free.

The Wall Street Journal will only let you read articles if you subscribe- if you google the article's headline and get at the site through google, though, you can read the whole article: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Alphabet%E2%80%99s+Google+to+Fold+Chrom...

The above link minus pointless snark: https://www.google.com/search?q=Google+to+Fold+Chrome+Operat...

That still gives me the paywall.

WSJ removed the Google exception a while ago.

I saw (wsj.com), clicked the "web" link under the title, then clicked the first link on Google to successfully view the article. Are you disabling sending of HTTP referrers?

It's definitely still working for me. Just double-checked.

Worked for me.