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.
Time to dig out that 14ft ladder
I just copy the link to archive.org and read the archived page
So this doesn’t work for wallstreet Journal pages unfortunately but does work for Natgeo! Thank you!
That’s one short ladder.
Bump for justice, ty
is there a difference between .ph and .is?
Try turning off JavaScript when ur faced with an overlaying paywall
Yeah, I haven’t seen a paywall in years with javascript disabled by default.
Some websites circumvent this by only having one paragraph of the story loaded if you turn off JavaScript.
Try the serious properties, like Economist or FT. Their paywalls are hard.
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.
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.
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.
Lots of sites just dont load anything w JS disabled. Nytimes for example
Yeah…that happens, but from my experience it works a lot of times
Add this to your custom filter list.
Bypass Paywalls Clean filter. Works for me with local papers and others like NYTimes etc.
Do I add this to my Pi-hole?
Eh, no… I meant in the settings in uBlock Origin, which you would already have installed as an addon in your browser of choice. Choose open dashboard, it opens at filter lists and down the bottom is ‘Import’, just below ‘Custom’. Add the url to import, it’ll do its thing and you’ll have a new entry in ‘Custom’. Sorry, don’t know much about Pi-Holes.
Oh right! Already use Ublock will give this a go.
No prob! Coupled with zero ads, it’s like it used to be back in the day, just… well, an article with some images. Good luck!
The archive sites work great, even for WSJ articles. I just checked after I saw your comment saying archive.ph doesn’t work for WSJ articles, and it works fine for archiving WSJ articles.
It’s cuts off the particular article I want to read, so seems like there is a word limit! Drat!
Which article? That is interesting, I haven’t had that issue yet, but I just started using these archived pages a couple weeks ago so I’m curious about their limits
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Okay, thanks. I tested a bunch of articles in duckduckgo and haven’t come across that yet, but I’ll test a cross browsers and see what happens. I’ll pay attention to the fading text.
Have you tried a different browser but still using the archive pages?
Simple filterlists, by definition, only work for a short time. Maybe a specific userscript can help. There are also Extensions, which redirect to articles about the same content to sites without paywall, like Unpaywall do, which is maybe the best option.
In Firefox, to use userscripts, you need to install first an Userscript Manage, like Tampermonkey, Violentmonkey, etc. which you find in the Mozilla Store. In Vivaldi it isn’t needed, simply download the script to a folder (don’t delete it) and drag it to the Extension Page in Developer mode in the Browser, to install it directly as an extension.
What is 12ft?
I saw this advice on an IG post (https://www.instagram.com/reel/CxBpKwrSblD/?igshid=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==).
This is for a desktop computer. I’m adding in the brackets what I believe are the actions they are taking in the IG video if you don’t want to click the link:
“If you’re on a website that’s forcing you to log in, [right click over the article and select] Inspect Elements, highlight over [the page and select] Delete [and then select] Node.”
I have not tried this myself. If you have clearer directions please reply to this comment!
This works for some sites, but honestly it’s easier using the Firefox reading mode on those sites, it basically does the same thing. It only works if the page loads the full articles text behind the pay wall popup which unfortunately not many do.
This extension works pretty well https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome
