I totally agree. This wasn't an exercise is getting around the business model but rather a quick tutorial so show how laughable (or possible by design) their hiding of articles was. If they really wanted to hide the content, they could easily check for the cookie on the server side rather than doing on the client side.
Nonsense. It was dressed up as a tutorial to "style the content of a page to your liking", but you know something, I learned very little about styling a page to my liking in that tutorial. The game is also given away by the name of the supplied function: "Paywall smasher".
The "tutorial" is the thinnest veneer of an excuse I've seen in a long time, and sits right alongside all those people who torrent scores of gigabytes of "linux isos" every month.
