Never ever visit https://byebyepaywall.com/en/ its a dangerous place
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And DO NOT DEFINITELY search Internet Archive for the first version of the article!
DuckDuckGo bangs are great for this. Just add !wayback (with the space) after the URL of the article you are reading, and it will search the Wayback Machine for that article.
Example: If the URL for the article is website.com/propaganda.html, change it to website.com/propaganda.html !wayback and press enter.
This also works on Kagi for anybody else using it
Works with Kagi and Brave too!
Both of you guys are godsends. Thankyou. I never knew this
hah, TIL, thanks!
I have a JavaScript bookmark that you click from any site that'll automatically pull up the latest archived version. Super handy.
javascript:window.location.href = "https://web.archive.org/web/" + window.location.href;
They have their own browser extension that does that, plus gives you an "archive now" button, and some other stuff I don't use.
Hasn't worked on most sites in a long time. The obscuring is now done on the server side so the text never gets to the browser. Otherwise it used to be easy to just use the developer console or uBlock to just remove the components that concealed the text or prevent the browser refreshing to prevent the concealing.
I can't recall which right now, but there are ones that manage to scrape the entire content by spoofing the Google crawler.
Since websites want to maximise their SEO, they must provide the raw content to be indexed better
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Just because it bothered me
~~append before~~ prepend.
Im pro-~~pre~~pend
Pro pend and pro pend accessories
aproprepending we will go
À-prorpendai
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Firefox (or other browsers idk) with reading mode works 90% of the time.
I've found more and more that sites are blocking it... But it still works a lot of the time. Maybe like 50/50 for me.
If it doesn't work, try going into reading mode, then reloading the page. Often times, that catches many of the problematic sites that try to block Reading Mode
Yeah that works sometimes
The best solution, imho. Been around for a long time and so notorious it got removed for DMCA violations on github and gitlab so it had to move to a service outside US copyright cabal jurisdictions.
Tried and true. :)
Crazy how to me why this is not more widely known. Best solution.
Every time it's recommended people shit themselves over the .ru domain. I don't think people realise just how much pirated content comes out of Russia, it's very normal and nothing to be afraid of.
Was scary to install that extension but now I can confirm it works as intended
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Sadly 12ft.io has been taken offline
Yeah this is really old and out of date
It’s not piracy in any way shape or form. If they sent the document to your computer then you have the document, reading that document and saving it elsewhere are not crimes and never can be, because the only way the Internet works is by transmitting the document to you where your computer must store it in some way.
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My rule of thumb: Do not ever link to, or follow links to, or read the New York Times.
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I don't do this. If I see a paywall, I don't visit the site again.
The Verge recently went with paywalls... I just deleted the bookmark. It was never a very good site anyway. They blasted an Android phone for doing something new, and then praised Apple for doing the exact same thing. I forget what. We were calling them iVerge for a while after that. (It was not recently.) Even as an Apple guy, I could not respect that. But the content has been entertaining, so I kept going back. I definitely will not pay them for their content though.
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I love when professors send you a list of sites you should stay away from lest you'll get an illegitimate copy of the textbook. I love it even more when professors just don't care about the optics and straight up email the whole class a link to libgen. But there was one professor at my uni that outdid all of them. He just took it upon himself to write a textbook for every course on the entire math curriculum and sold them for like $3-5 depending on the size of the book.
Disabling Javascript with ublock origin works most of time for me.
Also, do NOT use the Firefox's Reader View.
I literally won’t read articles if they won’t let me use reader view. It’s always trash news sites anyway so I’m not missing anything
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I definitely wouldn’t use reader mode even after the paywall comes up. Don’t ever do that.
I never really understood why they make these paywalls so badly i mean, its great for us, fuck paywalls and so, but if i wanted to hide something from someone i would not send the text to them, and then quickly put a white piece of paper over it, hoping you wouldn't notice.
It's so strange to me
The reason is a match between SEO and forcing users to pay. The problem is that they want crawler bots and the alike to index the page, so when you search for something mentioned in the article you can actually find it, but when you want to read it, they show you a paywall.
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and DO NOT DEFINITELY pay for journalist's work, because he certainly do not need to pay taxes, rent and will happily write articles for you free of charge and paywall is just to make you mad
yeah, truth is only something those who can afford to pay should have, better that the poors get their news from Facebook posts as God intended
This is why so many people are misinformed. Good journalism is paywalled while things like Fox News, Newsmax and Sky News aren't.
Journalists do need to get paid though, and not everyone is okay with ads. People expect too much for free.
Journalists should be funded by the public, as they perform a public service, while simultaneously they should not be required to report favorably upon the state. We just fail to do so because it's more profitable for the old money that own the current media empires (and Larry Ellison), with the added benefit that the general public are treated like mushrooms -- feed them shit and keep them in the dark.
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none of these worked for me on NYT, reader mode also did not work. seems sites have gotten around these tricks
Thease tricks depend on sending the full article, then obscuring it with CSS or JavaScript. Lots of places now just won't send the full text until you pay. So these tricks won't work.
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Gonna go out on a limb and say that 9 times out of 10 if this works, turning off JS will also work.
To which I'd then suggest just getting a browser extension like uMatrix to set up whitelisting for JS since it's a big ol' security hole anyways. Kill two birds with one stone.
How is it I never thought to use the print pdf or copy paste trick? Would have saved me a bunch of struggling prior to finding the paywall removers.
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