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12ft doesn't cut it anymore, any advice on getting past article paywalls (programming.dev)

submitted 2 years ago by Nugelz@programming.dev to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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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.

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[–] mean_bean279@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago (3 children)

12ft.io is a website that allows you to bypass paywalls on websites. Specifically for articles/news. The idea being “show me a 10ft wall and I’ll build a 12ft ladder.” It worked well against a lot of article and news outlet paywalls originally, but as time has gone on more and more sites are starting to show up on it as unable to bypass.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So what you're saying is that we need 13ft.io

[–] mean_bean279@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

12ft1in.io

Go as small as possible so that our ladder only has to get slightly longer. Plus I’m petty.

[–] library_napper@monyet.cc -2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Everyone besides US Americans won't understand imperial measurements

[–] mean_bean279@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Since there’s approximately 17,000 Subway Sandwich locations across 100 countries outside the United States I’m gonna say that most people can just imagine 12 (maybe 13 if we assume the 11in subway lawsuit) full size Subway Sandwiches stacked on top of each other.

[–] pragmakist@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

More than 400000 of us for each of those locations then, and how many of us have then bothered to wander in, I wonder?

Anyway, would you really trust an American company to actually make their sandwiches 1ft tall?

How would you even start to eat such a thing?

(Also most standardized feet are around 30 cm, so 12ft is ~ 3.6 m)

[–] Very_Bad_Janet@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

I just went to 12ft.io and got the following message:

This Deployment has been disabled.

Your connection is working correctly.

Vercel is working correctly.

So I'm guessing the site is gone?

[–] glorious_albus@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ah got it, thanks.

The great enshittification continues.

[–] Euphoma@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

How is it enshittification to stop people from pirating your stuff?

[–] thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 4 points 2 years ago

On the one hand, you're absolutely right.

On the other hand "The truth is paywalled, but the lies are free."