Bypass any paywall
Bypass any paywall
Looks interesting. Let’s paste in a NY Times article that I couldn’t read earlier.
12ft has been disabled for this site
…neat
I use this extension on firefox and they work for me https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome
Archive.is/ before any link works like a charm.
They bent over for a lot of sites. Cowards (or money hungry fuckfaces.)
This doesn't work nearly as well as it did in the past. I don't know the story behind 12ft, but they seem to be complying with any site which has requested it to not work on their articles.
That’s like when AdBlock Plus told advertisers they could be bribed to let their ads through.
Never worked well for me, tbh. I always went with archive.org which doesn't work anymore as well. The publishers have won the internet.
That site has never worked for me. I use and recommend bypass paywalls clean
Just want to add the bypass paywalls clean filters is the same idea but as an Adblock filter list rather than a separate extension.
Same. Never had it work even once.
The one true king. Just used it on ny times and it works. Just paste the filter list into ublock origins custom filter list option and youre good to go.
I hate paywalls as much as anyone, but I've been thinking lately... how can we expect to fund quality journalism without paying for any news? Is it viable to rely on donations alone?
I agree and still don't have a solution. I read a lot of news and I like to read different views on the same topic, like reading a very leftish and a very conservative article. But I just cant pay all of them. :/
My idea was to pay two different newspapers (one for daily news the other a monthly magazine) so that I pay at least some journalists and read the rest for free. And then change whom I am paying every year or two. For this I need antipaywall to still read the rest....
Now with some friends we have subscriptions to different newspapers and share them, but usually u have a fixed amount of devices you can connect to one subscription so more than 3 newspapers is difficult already.
I really liked this flattr idea but I think it died. It was something like you give an amount of money every month to your flattr account and then when you read articles and you liked them you press the flattr button.l at the end of the article. At the end of the month flatttr would distribute your money among all sites that you clicked the bottom with the amount corresponding to how many articles you liked... very good idea. But died(?) with paywalls.
It's no longer a reliable solution. Most paywalls now just throw a javascript confirmation at it's IP that breaks the ability to display the article.
And worse, 12-Foot Ladder intentionally doesn't work on many newspaper sites. Maybe they got some cease-and-desist letters, but for bypassing paper paywalls it's often useless.
I read somewhere that they work together with some companies and disabled their service in those news sites. But whether this co-op has monetary gains for 12ft or is the result from cease and desist orders, that I don't know
12ft and google cache often ends up with HUGE images. I assume sites are using very large image sizes that they are then down-scaling in a way that these sites can't parse.
Use archive.is these days, it's not perfect either but you get the added bonus of archiving the page for future folks.
Does not seem to like my VPN, unfortunately. I end up solving infinite CAPTCHAs.
Apparently that’s a transient problem for even people who use it all the time, normally without issues. I’ve never used it myself but read a conversation about it the other day.
I’m pleased as punch that (nearly) everyone on Lemmy seems to post non-paywalled links, talks about the sites, and exposes them to everyone else.
Over the years I’ve tried this site every now and the with varying results. Generally speaking, I seem to be interested in the types of articles where it doesn’t work.
The last few times I've tried, 12ft didn't work for me, but https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome does so far. (For firefox and chrome)
Theres also this one: https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean
Dont know the diference between them but its good to have options.I think it's the one without Google analytics. Apparently more active development as well, can't confirm that though just trust @eipi1_0@reddit.com
For sure, thanks for the link.
Does that work on Mobile?
Unfortunately I don't think so.
Thanks!
If I care that much I'll find a different source.
Doesn't work for a lot of sites unfortunately