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theguardian.com issue: "This is not a paywall" (hexbear.net)
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How do I stop that fucking nag without signing in? Ideally by blocking js or whatever the code is. If you don't sign in - it's highly aggressive and it appears on every page. It's sneaky - it appears after you scroll.

Ublock Origin filter stuff

These do not work.

theguardian.com##DIV[id*="sign-in"]
theguardian.com##DIV[id*="sign-in"]:style(display:none !important;)
theguardian.com##DIV[id*="sign-in"]:style(height:0px !important;)

This works but - of course - it fubars a lot of the site.

||theguardian.com^$inline-script
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[–] culpritus@hexbear.net 2 points 5 days ago

On a lot of these Firefox reader mode works very easily to allow you to read it. Not sure about this site though. Just tried it with their subscription nag popup, and it worked just fine.

[–] TheFermentalist@reddthat.com 1 points 5 days ago

I use bypasspaywalls.com. There is an android widget and an iOS widget.

Long press the link you want to open, select share, then the widget and the link will open. 90% of the time anyway. For the rest, there are options across the top (ie numbered 1-6) and one of those options generally works.

If a story is very new, it may not have been archived yet and for major publications will be there in an hour or so.

A small percentage of sites will never open.

It doesn’t work on the Apple News aggregator, but works everywhere else. So if you see an article you want to read on apple, go to the publications page, search it, and that will work