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12ft doesn't cut it anymore, any advice on getting past article paywalls
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this post was submitted on 27 Oct 2023
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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.
I’m going to get fired at for saying this, but websites like that are why I keep Brave around as a last resort news backup. Its reader mode didn’t get past FT, but easily did so for the Economist.
(I don’t need education about Brave, but readers can lodge their complaints and do the token rants right here 👇)
https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean
Thanks, I’m aware, but afaik that is not an option on iOS mobile.
edit: just looked again and saw the brief blurb for iOS/iPadOS, will look into it further
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