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    • jdaviescoates
      jdaviescoates last edited by jdaviescoates

      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 🙂

      I use Cloudron with Gandi & Hetzner

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      • humptydumpty
        humptydumpty 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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        • jdaviescoates
          jdaviescoates @humptydumpty 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.

          I use Cloudron with Gandi & Hetzner

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