Remove paywalls with 12ft.io
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wrote on Mar 10, 2023, 1:17 PM last edited by jdaviescoates Mar 10, 2023, 4:43 PM
https://12ft.io is awesome - it quickly and easily removes most paywalls by serving up a Google cache of the page instead (because of course people want the Google crawler to be able to access and index their site, even if they have a paywall)
Just put 12ft.io/ at the beginning on a paywalled site URL and you can nearly always access it
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wrote on Mar 10, 2023, 1:25 PM last edited by
For premium news sites where the article loads and then the paywall pop up kicks in, i use the clean reading mode button in Firefox right before the paywall loads and it fetches the whole page. Makes me chuckle each time.
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For premium news sites where the article loads and then the paywall pop up kicks in, i use the clean reading mode button in Firefox right before the paywall loads and it fetches the whole page. Makes me chuckle each time.
wrote on Mar 10, 2023, 1:26 PM last edited by@humptydumpty said in Remove paywalls with 12ft.io:
i use the clean reading mode button in Firefox right before the paywall loads and it fetches the whole page. Makes me chuckle each time.
Yeah, I've used the trick quite a few times too.
Another good one is to search the title on Google Alerts and then click through on there.
But 12ft.io works better than either of those methods.
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wrote on May 2, 2023, 4:34 AM last edited by
This Firefox extension lets you Bypass Paywalls without having to use any tricks or hacks. It works awesome.
https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean
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@humptydumpty said in Remove paywalls with 12ft.io:
i use the clean reading mode button in Firefox right before the paywall loads and it fetches the whole page. Makes me chuckle each time.
Yeah, I've used the trick quite a few times too.
Another good one is to search the title on Google Alerts and then click through on there.
But 12ft.io works better than either of those methods.
wrote on May 2, 2023, 6:43 AM last edited by@jdaviescoates Another option, and there is an Application Request, is to check if there is an archived version on the internet:
Apart from being able to read the page, there are no trackers and the ads are generally not so bad. By self-hosting an archiving service, one is able to defeat censorship and help preserve valuable content on the internet.
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wrote on Nov 6, 2023, 4:29 PM last edited by
12ft is offline now.
there's a self hosted version I'm pitching for having it here at Cloudron
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@chetbaker that would be great