I know we can get passed paywalls by archiving but sometimes that takes a bit of time. I remember there was something about adding a letter after the dot com/ but can't recall the letter. I found a comment that says to add a dot after the dot com but that doesn't seem to work. Any ideas?
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The dot behind the dot com is typically assumed by the browser to be there at all times anyway, sort of like WWW, it just denotes that the com in dot com is the top level domain, so adding it to the end of a URL doesn't really do anything at all.
This is true, but there IS a trick the OP was talking about.
Again, I feel like it vaguely involved the letter "a", and vaguely remember it involving placing something before the subdomain. Obviously, it won't work as a subdirectory.
I feel like it might have been involved with a certain type of disability access protocall.
Sorry to keep harping on this, its just this is one of those simple hacks I feel like I know exists, and I'm ashamed of myself for not noting it better.
A personal failure, honestly. 😟
Edit: ashamed, so I dug. Can't test it myself, but apparently a single period after the TLD before the first backslash will do this. More info in another reply here.
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