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my browser always asks if I want the simplified view which always bypasses the paywall
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DO NOT DISABLE JAVASCRIPT USING AN EXTENSIONS BECAUSE THAT WILL MAKE TRACKING STOP WORKING AND BYPASS PAYWALLS.
Firefox has a button that shows up in the url that kind of turns the webpage into an e-book-esque view that pops up for most articles (especially Pay Wall)
You would never use DuckDuckGo as your default search engine and then type !archiveis in front of your urlbar visiting a news site.
Doesn't NYT cut off most of the article now? I used to just be able to disable JS but that didn't work anymore last I checked.
I use this extension and it lets me bypass pretty much every paywall including NYT's
Best extension along with uBlock Origins!
Yeah the article stub doesn't link to the article. It links to a login flow with the article id. If you go directly to the article you get redirected if you don't have a session.
It's incredibly easy to make an impossible to get around paywall. Porn has done it since the Internet existed.
In this very particular situation I'm glad most companies are lazy and stupid.
I don't particularly care if a company does pay only content. I think its legitimately ok. I hate companies that don't make you pay enough for the service to cover their costs thus leading to complete enshitifaction.
I thought the issue was they wanted search engines to be able to see the content, but not non paying viewers? Hence slightly shitty paywalls.
Eh you're right of course. Like I said below. Search engines have become useless anyway..
It's incredibly easy to make an impossible to get around paywall.
Sure, but the easily-bypassed js method makes sure itβs still crawlable by search engines, which is a trade well worth making where I work. Doesnβt matter as much for porn sites since the title and description arenβt the content most people are there for, so you can expose them on the paywall page.
Maybe they have a way to unblock major search engine crawlers but block it for everyone else now? I know Cloudflare was doing something similar for some bot protection mechanism, and this seems like something news outlets would want to do also.
Very true. I don't disagree at all. I think once google finally becomes totally useless. It won't matter.
I mean Google is already just Yellow Pages AdWords edition with AI content
Brave browser has a filter to bypass paywalls. Works on desktop and mobile versions. Definitely works on NYT as I just read something there today. And of course has built in adblock. You can also add additional filters and adblock lists.
Bonus: print to PDF in Brave to share an article with someone else. It retains all the graphics relevant to the article and cuts all the junk and ads out too.
For that to work you have to use Brave browser. Ewwww. Firefox does the same with add-ons.
Absolutely do not inspect elements and start deleting stuff! Leave them alone!
excellent psa
12ft hardly works for anything for me anymore 
Yeah, unfortunately 12ft.io didn't keep up with the paywall arms race. It's too bad because it was one of those things that a lot of people knew about, many of whom may now just give up when it doesn't work even though there are other options out there.
As one example, there's now also the 13ft ladder: https://github.com/wasi-master/13ft It's like 12ft but self hosted. Sounds really good but I can't vouch for it yet.
I mostly would just archive a paywallrd page with archive.is (aka archive.today, archive.ph, etc.) and that worked great and also helped take traffic away from asshole sites that paywall content. Unfortunately, archive started requiring a cloud flare captcha when archiving a page. This is a deal breaker for me since captcha totally deanonymizes you and is used for tracking purposes and even to train AI. So it defeats a good chunk of the purpose of using an archive site.
Still, there's a good chance that someone else already archived the page you want to see, so putting the url in archive.is search can be enough to bypass the paywall.
Cool thing about this is that it pretends to be GoogleBot to remove annoyances
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I always break the ctrl key right off my keyboard when I get a new computer so I don't accidentally do this.
I do that with the windows key...
Brave browser has a filter to bypass paywalls. Works on desktop and mobile versions. Definitely works on NYT as I just read something there today. And of course has built in adblock. You can also add additional filters and adblock lists.
Bonus: print to PDF in Brave to share an article with someone else. It retains all the graphics relevant to the article and cuts all the junk and ads out too.
12ft.io almost never works for me tbh.
Also, appending before something is called prepending, similar to how a prefix after something is a suffix.
Archive.is is definitely not an alternative that people should use in this situation
Nor archive.ph, which appears to be the same site? Idk how that works. Definitely not a site anyone should go to, though.
Nor archive.md nor archive.today, which appear to be run by the same rogue actors and serve the same content as archive.is and archive.ph. Beware.
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Definitely don't use uBlock Origin's zapper mode to get rid of elements on the page that are blocking your view.
Then you just get an unblocked half an article
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we all need to consider, it costs money to fund quality journalism. we have to be aware of the many forces working against basic silly journalism, like what's happening at the school board.
"Append...before", AKA "prepend"!
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