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      10 months ago

      If you didn’t know already, you can easily bypass paywalls with this firefox/chrome extension.

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        10 months ago

        I do. Unfortunately Firefox for Android doesn’t yet allow you to install any add-on you like :(

        So measures like these are helpful. Thanks for commenting though, it might help others.

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          10 months ago

          Ah I see you are on mobile. What works for me on mobile is the following:

          1. Copy the link of the article you want to bypass the paywall for.
          2. Open a new incognito tab that doesn’t have any cookies whatsoever (I usually only have this single tab open in incognito)
          3. Load https://www.google.com in the incognito tab
          4. Paste the link of the article into the search bar from https://www.google.com (use the search bar of the site not the one from your browser, this is important) and press search.
          5. If you now click the corresponding article link from the resulting google results page, the article should load without any paywall.

          AFAIK this exploits the same mechanism that the bypass paywalls extension exploits. Websites want to make their articles accessible via google if you directly search for them, but want to have a paywall if you find the article via their website. This works for me for most major international news websites on Firefox for iOS