You will go straight to jail 😡😡😡
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You would never use DuckDuckGo as your default search engine and then type !archiveis in front of your urlbar visiting a news site.
DO NOT DISABLE JAVASCRIPT USING AN EXTENSIONS BECAUSE THAT WILL MAKE TRACKING STOP WORKING AND BYPASS PAYWALLS.
Firefox has a button that shows up in the url that kind of turns the webpage into an e-book-esque view that pops up for most articles (especially Pay Wall)
excellent psa
brave has a filter you can add to auto-bypass paywalls already right there to be selected after install
we all need to consider, it costs money to fund quality journalism. we have to be aware of the many forces working against basic silly journalism, like what’s happening at the school board.
Absolutely do not inspect elements and start deleting stuff! Leave them alone!
Doesn’t NYT cut off most of the article now? I used to just be able to disable JS but that didn’t work anymore last I checked.
Brave browser has a filter to bypass paywalls. Works on desktop and mobile versions. Definitely works on NYT as I just read something there today. And of course has built in adblock. You can also add additional filters and adblock lists.
Bonus: print to PDF in Brave to share an article with someone else. It retains all the graphics relevant to the article and cuts all the junk and ads out too.
I use this extension and it lets me bypass pretty every paywall including NYT’s
Best extension along with uBlock Origins!
Warning. Russian orc website. Beware.
Least racist corporate shill
If you’re afraid of visiting Russian websites, piracy is probably not for you.
Russian websites aren’t the problem. Software from Russian websites potentially is.
What a bullshit argument. Oh yes, untrusted software from random sites in any other top-level domain is safe.
Shouldnt you be on the ukraine front lines with your commrades?
Shouldnt you be on the ukraine front lines with your fellow nazis?
If you insert yourself as a side of a war and also imply that people doing this should be on the front lines, then apparently you are?
And I don’t.
Yeah the article stub doesn’t link to the article. It links to a login flow with the article id. If you go directly to the article you get redirected if you don’t have a session.
It’s incredibly easy to make an impossible to get around paywall. Porn has done it since the Internet existed.
In this very particular situation I’m glad most companies are lazy and stupid.
I don’t particularly care if a company does pay only content. I think its legitimately ok. I hate companies that don’t make you pay enough for the service to cover their costs thus leading to complete enshitifaction.
I thought the issue was they wanted search engines to be able to see the content, but not non paying viewers? Hence slightly shitty paywalls.
It’s incredibly easy to make an impossible to get around paywall.
Sure, but the easily-bypassed js method makes sure it’s still crawlable by search engines, which is a trade well worth making where I work. Doesn’t matter as much for porn sites since the title and description aren’t the content most people are there for, so you can expose them on the paywall page.
I just use Bypass Paywalls Clean, or failing that, archive.vn.
12ft hardly works for anything for me anymore
Yeah, unfortunately 12ft.io didn’t keep up with the paywall arms race. It’s too bad because it was one of those things that a lot of people knew about, many of whom may now just give up when it doesn’t work even though there are other options out there.
As one example, there’s now also the 13ft ladder: https://github.com/wasi-master/13ft It’s like 12ft but self hosted. Sounds really good but I can’t vouch for it yet.
I mostly would just archive a paywallrd page with archive.is (aka archive.today, archive.ph, etc.) and that worked great and also helped take traffic away from asshole sites that paywall content. Unfortunately, archive started requiring a cloud flare captcha when archiving a page. This is a deal breaker for me since captcha totally deanonymizes you and is used for tracking purposes and even to train AI. So it defeats a good chunk of the purpose of using an archive site.
Still, there’s a good chance that someone else already archived the page you want to see, so putting the url in archive.is search can be enough to bypass the paywall.
Cool thing about this is that it pretends to be GoogleBot to remove annoyances
Same
I always break the ctrl key right off my keyboard when I get a new computer so I don’t accidentally do this.
“Append…before”, AKA “prepend”!
Thank you for the great advice. We should share this to a maximum of people. We don’t want people to get in trouble for violating copyright especially when done accidentally.
Firefox Immersive Reader button
