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this post was submitted on 30 Oct 2023
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Bypass Paywalls extension for Firefox.
Works better and for more sites in my experience.
How do I install it on Firefox android, though?
My phone won't open xpi files and the only solutions I've been able to find is either create a html file in the same folder, which I don't know how to do on android, or download and install an extension which is ALSO only available as an xpi 🤦
I believe you have to use nightly. Try this https://ghacks.net/2020/10/01/you-can-now-install-any-add-on-in-firefox-nightly-for-android-but-it-is-complicated/
That worked! Awesome, thanks, I tried a few other methods last week with no luck
Yay, that works! Thank you!
Import custom filter
Bypass Paywalls Clean
I think it's this one
https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-clean-filters
Try custom collections feature:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-use-collections-addonsmozillaorg
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Well I use Fennec for Android from F-Droid, which has the option of using custom collections for addons.
I don't think it's possible yet on "normal" Firefox other than Nightly.
Yeah, on the advice of someone else itt, I switched to Nightly and that worked 🙂
You could instead use the Web Archives extension. Works for most common paywalls.
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It has seemed to work on less and less sites for me recently, to the point that I do not visited it as often as I used to.
But that tweet does sound like pretty bad news...
It never ever seemed to work for me.
by the time it got popular, it was already not working with multiple big sources.
The only time I ever used it, they told me they chose not to support that site
https://archive.md/ gets around way more paywalls. Highly recommend it.
archive.org is the Internet Archive Wayback Machine, and it works as well. There is also archive.is and archive.ph
They seem to have blocked my ip- I get an impassable capture
I also get infinitely CAPTCHA blocked on Android trying to connect to archive.md and the other domains. Doesn't matter if I use Firefox, chrome, Samsung mobile browser.
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disabling js does more
12ft.io was performative useless garbage anyway, if any site can just ask your paywalling bypass site to not bypass their paywall, what is the point of your site
Exactly. As soon as they bent over to NYT, I stopped using them.
It stopped working on any of the sites I ever bothered to use it on anyway- most of them wisened up to the crawler bypass and simply made a 2 sentence tagline visible to crawlers that hit the SEO terms, with everything else hidden. Soooo nothing of value lost and Capital comes to claim its pie once again.
I used to use 12ft.io whenever I needed to read a paywalled article.
Is the "Bypass paywall clean" extension better than 12ft.io?
Some extra context / clarification from the thread re Vercel: they did warn him starting two weeks ago. They’ve stated he has a line open with customer support to get his other projects restored but that hasn’t happened yet.
I think that Vercel wants to drop them as a customer entirely. Vercel could've suspended the services related to 12ft.io, but Vercel chose to nuke their account from orbit. I'm unsure why Vercel suspended their domains tho. That's just asking for trouble with ICANN.
Out of curiosity, how is it an issue with ICANN? I know they can complain to them, but what category will this fall under?
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Technically, if one were to disable the JS used for said paywall on a site, they would never see it again. I haven't personally done this but has anyone tried?
Most sites load no content at all if JS is disabled.
On a majority of sites all of the page's content will be present at least for SSO. And you have the added bonus that they don't ask for cookies etc...
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If the website developer is worth their salt, the article contents won't be delivered from the web server until the reader has been authorized. So it doesn't matter how much JS code you disable.
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