Best 'bypass paywall' apps or sites?

Vox is a general interest news site for the 21st century. Its mission: to help everyone understand our complicated world, so that we can all help shape it. In text, video and audio, our reporters explain politics, policy, world affairs, technology, culture, science, the climate crisis, money, health...

I already have the latest 'bypass paywall' clean installed , but I'm finding one of two things lately : either some previous bypassed sites are becoming subject to restrictions or some recently accessible sites are now restricted.

Case in point: Vox.

When I try to read any articles on the site now , I keep getting blocked by a popup that tells me to become a paid member.

The site use to take pride in being (mostly) free but now it appears to be (mostly) paid.

Is there anyway of getting around this?

thanks

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archive.is
Just throw the website in there and you can read it free.
- Nice!
  Thanks.
  But trying to access archive.is throws up its own roadblocks in the form of popups where you have to click the correct boxes of pictures just to proceed.
  
  half the time they just give you the article, but half the time they do captcha.
  if you complete the captcha, it always provide you with a full article, though.
  
  I think you can just add archive.md or archive.ph etc before the URL of the article, e.g. archive.ph/https://vox.com/whatever to skip that. I've never had to do any captchas this way

https://gitflic.ru/project/magnolia1234/bpc_uploads
This, plus AdGuard and I can read Vox no problem
- Can confirm! I also have AdGuard & BPC and I can browse around it with no trouble.

Scripts/extensions/sites to bypass paywalls can only bypass soft paywalls, where the article is still available in some cases (e.g. you can read a few articles for free, they allow search engines to index the content, etc).
More and more sites are moving towards hard paywalls which can't be bypassed other than someone paying for the site and downloading the content that way, which is legally much more sketchy.
Some paid news sites let members create free links to share articles with non members, which is another option.

https://12ft.io/

The good news is that you aren't missing much because Vox videos and articles are a mile wide, and an inch deep.

http://txtify.it/

https://github.com/everywall/ladder is selfhosted but someone hosts a public instance: https://ladder.nerdvpn.de/ username: ladder password: unpaywall

I use an extension which bundles 5 different solutions in one called PaywallHub. I hasn't been updated for a while because it got hit by takedown notices, but the chrome extension and firefox addon repos are still available, you just have to install it a bit more manually: https://github.com/Angeloyo/PaywallHub

IronFox with uBlock Origin works for me when I click through some articles on that site.

12ft.io usually works for me.
- It's blocked a lot of sites now though.

I use the obsidian web clipper plug-in to read paywalled content in my vault. Or, there's one specifically built for saving recipes and it works great.