Getting around magazine paywalls (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago by open_door@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Do you folks have any tips on how to get around magazine and newspaper paywalls? It seems like the old tricks are becoming less reliable and it's frustrating - especially given paywalls seem to be becoming more stringent at the same time.

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[-] lodion@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago

Check 12ft.io

[-] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 year ago

I tried it on two sites - New York Times and Financial Times. NYT gives the error message "12ft has been disabled for this site" and FT doesn't remove the paywall. Nice idea, shame about the execution. :)

[-] open_door@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

I had the same issue with NYT, but I managed to get in using archive.is! :)

[-] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 1 points 1 year ago

My method that works on most sites is hit the reader mode button in Firefox, then refresh while in reader mode.

[-] Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago

Have you tried the Bypass Paywalls Clean extension? There's a version for Chrome and Firefox. It works for many sites but not everything. I think Firefox removed it from their add-ons repository but you can install it manually. There's a good article on that decision here and also a method to use uBlock Origin for this purpose.