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12ft doesn't cut it anymore, any advice on getting past article paywalls (self.privacy)

submitted 1 year ago by Nugelz to c/[email protected]

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Yeah 12ft doenst seem to work on any sites anymore. Does anyone have any alternatives that work? I'm already familiar with the airplane mode trick but that's not always fit for purpose.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yeah, I haven't seen a paywall in years with javascript disabled by default.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago

Some websites circumvent this by only having one paragraph of the story loaded if you turn off JavaScript.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Try the serious properties, like Economist or FT. Their paywalls are hard.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The economist is a bad example lol.

Their site loads the content before it locks it down. So you can just reload the side and press reading mode before it removes it again.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If true, it's all but impossible to actually do this on a normal-speed connection. I had the impression they stopped this method a while ago.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Worked fine on a 200 Mbit/s connection yesterday at least.

I can try a gigabit or even 2 gigabit connection next week.

The developer tab in browsers also has a way to throttle the connection if you want.

I use Firefox btw.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I’m going to get fired at for saying this, but websites like that are why I keep Brave around as a last resort news backup. Its reader mode didn’t get past FT, but easily did so for the Economist.

(I don’t need education about Brave, but readers can lodge their complaints and do the token rants right here 👇)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thanks, I’m aware, but afaik that is not an option on iOS mobile.

edit: just looked again and saw the brief blurb for iOS/iPadOS, will look into it further

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That sounds more inconvenient than paywalls.