I don't plan on ever paying for access to articles. When I click a link on HN that requires a subscription to read the article I just click the back button. It would be great to have a little dollar sign icon to save me the click and save the world the wasted bandwidth. Is there a browser plugin that will mark paywalled links or eliminate them?
The popular alternative (many paywalled articles will even have a top comment with this generated already) is to use the fabulous service https://archive.ph