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[–] PeachMan@lemmy.world 98 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] PinkPanther@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is brilliant! Soon, we might have 14ft.io as well.

[–] VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm gonna hold out for 69ft.io

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[–] ArtikBanana@lemmy.dbzer0.com 95 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bypass Paywalls extension for Firefox.
Works better and for more sites in my experience.

[–] VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

How do I install it on Firefox android, though?

My phone won't open xpi files and the only solutions I've been able to find is either create a html file in the same folder, which I don't know how to do on android, or download and install an extension which is ALSO only available as an xpi 🤦

[–] mister_newbie@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That worked! Awesome, thanks, I tried a few other methods last week with no luck

[–] VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf 2 points 1 year ago

Yay, that works! Thank you!

[–] bernieecclestoned@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Import custom filter

Bypass Paywalls Clean

I think it's this one

https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-clean-filters

[–] ArtikBanana@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well I use Fennec for Android from F-Droid, which has the option of using custom collections for addons.
I don't think it's possible yet on "normal" Firefox other than Nightly.

[–] VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, on the advice of someone else itt, I switched to Nightly and that worked 🙂

[–] jadelord@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

You could instead use the Web Archives extension. Works for most common paywalls.

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[–] dmtalon@infosec.pub 77 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

It has seemed to work on less and less sites for me recently, to the point that I do not visited it as often as I used to.

But that tweet does sound like pretty bad news...

[–] DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It never ever seemed to work for me.

[–] noodlejetski@lemm.ee 21 points 1 year ago

by the time it got popular, it was already not working with multiple big sources.

[–] cheerjoy@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

The only time I ever used it, they told me they chose not to support that site

[–] nomadic@lemmy.one 45 points 1 year ago (2 children)

https://archive.md/ gets around way more paywalls. Highly recommend it.

[–] nicman24@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

disabling js does more

[–] empireOfLove@lemmy.one 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It stopped working on any of the sites I ever bothered to use it on anyway- most of them wisened up to the crawler bypass and simply made a 2 sentence tagline visible to crawlers that hit the SEO terms, with everything else hidden. Soooo nothing of value lost and Capital comes to claim its pie once again.

[–] tun@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I used to use 12ft.io whenever I needed to read a paywalled article.

Is the "Bypass paywall clean" extension better than 12ft.io?

[–] Otome-chan@kbin.social 23 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I use bypass paywalls clean and never see a paywall. so... yes.

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[–] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Technically, if one were to disable the JS used for said paywall on a site, they would never see it again. I haven't personally done this but has anyone tried?

[–] Anders429@programming.dev 25 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Most sites load no content at all if JS is disabled.

[–] Baleine@jlai.lu 7 points 1 year ago

On a majority of sites all of the page's content will be present at least for SSO. And you have the added bonus that they don't ask for cookies etc...

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[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 year ago

If the website developer is worth their salt, the article contents won't be delivered from the web server until the reader has been authorized. So it doesn't matter how much JS code you disable.

[–] hedgehog@ttrpg.network 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Some extra context / clarification from the thread re Vercel: they did warn him starting two weeks ago. They’ve stated he has a line open with customer support to get his other projects restored but that hasn’t happened yet.

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