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[–] [email protected] 37 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Can someone just copy/paste the tweet here

[–] [email protected] 29 points 10 months ago

magnolia1234_bpc
@Magnolia1234B
Bypass Paywalls Clean
New backup for latest release versions:
https://github.com/bpc-clone/bpc_updates

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Reminder that Firefox nightly and Fennec (Mull should be fine too) can install add-ons from file on Android.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I just tried with Fennec and failed. How do you proceed ?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

You need to activate the developers options/debug menu:

Settings -> About Fennec -> tap on the fennec logo multiple times

Go back to settings the option to install from files should appear.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yes, it worked. Thank you so much :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Maybe I'm missing something but I don't see any option to install from files with Fennec? Only from a collection. And it seems you can't add bypass paywalls clean to a collection because it's not in the AMO.

Edit: nvm had to update Fennec

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

The option showed up in 123 if I remember correctly.

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

Ah, and here I was thinking installing addons from file was impossible on Android. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

It's was a thing years ago and became a thing again last month or in February in nightly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Incidentally, so can the regular Firefox these days!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Iceraven can too but it's not available on Play Store.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

The linked tweet text:

Bypass Paywalls Clean New backup for latest release versions: https://t.co/yCJlZZ1f5Z

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

Fucking love this plugin! Thanks Magnolia for all the hard work.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (3 children)

How do I install this on Firefox desktop and Firefox Android? I remember there was an extension for Firefox the last time I checked. Now I cannot find the extension on the Mozilla store.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

If you are using Firefox just go to the github repo that someone linked above, go to "Releases" and then download the clean-latest.xpi file. Firefox will install it for you.

If using Chrome, I would guess it to be the same, but the right file would be the .crx one.

If you are not using Firefox+uBO you really should, though!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

I'm on Pixel 7 and current Firefox, but it won't install. It Just says "no app found to open xpi files"

Edit: fixed. Have to engage Dev options. Settings > About > tap the Firefox icon a few times. Then go back to settings and you'll see the "install add-on from file" option.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Have to engage Dev options. Settings > About > tap the Firefox icon a few times.

Thanks! TIL

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Sorry, I didn't even notice the Android part. Glad you could fix it!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

If you are not using Firefox+uBO you really should, though!

Firefox + uBO for life.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If you are using Firefox just go to the github repo that someone linked above, go to "Releases" and then download the clean-latest.xpi file. Firefox will install it for you.

If using Chrome, I would guess it to be the same, but the right file would be the .crx one.

If you are not using Firefox+uBO you really should, though!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Thx for the valuable info mate 👍👍

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

You're welcome!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I installed it but I am clueless on how to use it. If someone can give a short explanation on how to actually use this extension then that would be marvelous!

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Why does it ask to access MY data in so many sites? According to Firefox, that includes passwords

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

These extensions work first by looking at the contents of the page you're on to detect a paywall, and then make modifications to the page that remove the paywall. There's no way for the browser-creators to guarantee that the extension isn't also silently adding a hidden element that captures everything that you type into that website, in addition to the paywal removal, so they're basically trying to warn you such a thing could happen.

And that is a genuine risk from every extension in the addons store, but I would say that risk is potentially even higher with a piracy extension installed from a github relese. (Not this one in particular per se, which I have no opinion about, just in general.) If it makes you uncomfortable, a reasonable compromise could be to create a new browser profile for use only with this extension, or maybe even use a different browser entirely than your daily driver.