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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/21672073

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[–] [email protected] 78 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Most paywalls know this and don't load the content at all. Don't do it because it doesn't work

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yep. They’ve gotten smarter. Some of the plugins and tools websites use to create a paywall will actually only render part of the article to the browser before the user signs up. They used to simply mask it and you could remove the paywall via editing some CSS in the browser’s dev tools to see all of the text, but that’s not the case anymore.

Source: web dev for ~20 years.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

Server-side paywalling? Everything old is new again.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Yeah this hasn’t been working for a while

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My strategy with paywalls is to close the tab and go somewhere else. It works fine and is a great way to let the website owner this bullshit make them lose viewers and visibility.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Wow, I do the same thing! How great!

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago

Appending 12ft.io is not dangerous. Prepending it however is.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

Sure, no problem... I'll just trigger reader mode in Firefox instead

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

I copy and paste the paywall link to archive.is. Most of the time they have a paywall-free backup which is readable.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

But I use chrome! /s

Thx for sharing.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

honestly, this is a great point in favor of arguing a switch to FF. if all the plugins that are now getting wiped from chrome move over to FF and tell users they are now availablr on FF, and users advertising just use X plugin on FF to solve glaring issues with chrome, then there is no incentive to stick with chrome anymore.

or maybe this has been the thing all along and i'm just slow 😅

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

Also definitely refrain from pasting in the URL into https://archive.is as it is definitely illegal to circumvent paywalls by pretending to be a google web crawler to archive the site

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Don't copy the url and enter it in this site: https://byebyepaywall.com/en/

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Thanks for the heads up. This will make sure we never commit such criminal activity ever again.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Have you clicked that URL?

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

You need to go to the repositories tab in order to find the repos for chrome and firefox respecively

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Right, the private profile message fooled me. Sorry

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

I'm on mobile and it was working last time I tried

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

Wow that's a lot of effort compared to just blocking CSS and javascript with something like uMatrix.

[–] CHKMRK 1 points 6 days ago

uMatrix has been depreceated for several years now sadly

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Q: "Why is journalism dying?"

A:

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

Journalism has been dead for ages. Now, satire (like The Onion), that's informative.

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

What's next, you'll tell me Burger King News coverage of The Hamburgler wreaking havok on the city is false too? If we don't act now to increase our anti-hamburgler budget all of Frace as we know it will be gone! We can't afford to not act!!!

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

Because modern "journalists" only know how to copy and paste from other "news sites" and random social media posts.