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| author | Peter Stone <thepeterstone@gmail.com> | 2026-07-22 18:35:06 +0000 |
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| committer | Peter Stone <thepeterstone@gmail.com> | 2026-07-22 18:35:06 +0000 |
| commit | e804e7a77a6cac048d5f6edeac0a339ca89e4d40 (patch) | |
| tree | 41bc4c30b11105f5846a5fe2eaf13e2cede10adf /app/src/main/java/org/terst/feedreader/data | |
| parent | 91edd1f5f29a3336fa9e3bd1762c70ea74e3e48d (diff) | |
Add site login and alternate-source search for paywalled articles
Deliberately not a paywall-bypass mechanism -- that space (archive.today-style
proxies, "Bypass Paywalls" extensions) is legally grey, adversarial toward
publishers, and constantly breaking. Instead:
- BrowserScreen: a real interactive mini-browser (JS + DOM storage on,
ordinary navigation, no Readability interception) for the two cases where
the user needs to actually USE a page rather than read it. Reached from
a new overflow menu on the article reader:
- "Log in to this site" opens the article's own URL there so the user can
sign into a site they already subscribe to. Needs no extra plumbing:
Android's CookieManager is one process-wide store shared by every WebView
in the app, so a session cookie set here is picked up automatically by
the reader's (JS-off) extraction WebView on the next visit to that
domain -- same as a normal browser remembering you're signed in.
- "Find another source" runs a web search on the article's title in the
same browser, so the user can pick a different, non-paywalled outlet
covering the same story themselves -- plain search/discovery, not
circumvention.
Verified live: search opened a real, interactive Google results page with
working title-bar sync; back navigation (via BackHandler, goBack() when the
WebView has history, else pop the screen) returned cleanly to the article.
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