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Why YSK: Information should be free and open for all

Copy and paste the article URL into https://archive.is/ and view an archived version, thus bypassing the paywall

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[–] political_avacado@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago
[–] sevan@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Bypass Paywalls Chrome is also an option. It can be used in Chrome or Edge.

https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome

[–] Transcendant@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Wow, I remember using this service a few times on ukpolitics sub as it was on pretty much all posts. Never realised it works like this, I just put a newscientist article link in and can read the whole article. Thanks

[–] Sanji@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Share2Archive https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.navasgroup.share2archive&hl=en_US&gl=US is a handy Android app which adds a Share target to open the site in archive.today. It saves some time from copying/pasting the URL on mobile.

[–] cosmosparda@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

That's awesome! Sad it's not compatible with a pixel 6 pro for some reason.

[–] nix@merv.news 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

iOS users: add this shortcut to your share sheet and click on it when you encounter a paywall and itll open the archive link which lets you read and share the article without a paywall https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/ede57eb29515446ab7cd68b5a8a6e311

Or use this Praxis Browser app in the same way but it wont let you share the article https://apps.apple.com/us/app/praxis-browser/id1598706451

Android users: this Web Archive Viewer app seems to do the same thing as the iOS shortcut but ive never used it https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=web.archive.viewer

Firefox users on any platform: this extension opens the archived version of the article and lets you read or share the article without paywalls https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/archive-page/

The firefox extension can be used on android and ios as well (ios users can install it with the Orion web browser)

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