🚨🚨🚨DEFINITELY DO NOT DO THIS HIGHLY ILLEGAL🚨🚨🚨
🚨🚨🚨DEFINITELY DO NOT DO THIS HIGHLY ILLEGAL🚨🚨🚨
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/21672073
You will go straight to jail 😡😡😡
Sure, no problem... I'll just trigger reader mode in Firefox instead
8 0 ReplyDon't copy the url and enter it in this site: https://byebyepaywall.com/en/
6 0 ReplyMy 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.
18 1 ReplyWow, I do the same thing! How great!
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Appending 12ft.io is not dangerous. Prepending it however is.
14 0 ReplyMost paywalls know this and don't load the content at all. Don't do it because it doesn't work
53 0 ReplyYep. 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.
30 0 ReplyServer-side paywalling? Everything old is new again.
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Yeah this hasn’t been working for a while
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Thanks for the heads up. This will make sure we never commit such criminal activity ever again.
4 0 ReplyI copy and paste the paywall link to archive.is. Most of the time they have a paywall-free backup which is readable.
11 0 ReplyToo many clicks for me.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/view-page-archive/
10 0 ReplyBut I use chrome! /s
Thx for sharing.
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Wow that's a lot of effort compared to just blocking CSS and javascript with something like uMatrix.
2 0 ReplyJust use https://GitHub.com/bpc-clone
3 0 ReplyHave you clicked that URL?
1 0 ReplyI'm on mobile and it was working last time I tried
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Q: "Why is journalism dying?"
A:
1 1 ReplyJournalism has been dead for ages. Now, satire (like The Onion), that's informative.
1 0 ReplyBecause modern "journalists" only know how to copy and paste from other "news sites" and random social media posts.
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