Remove paywalls with 12ft.io
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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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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.
@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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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.
@jdaviescoates Another option, and there is an Application Request, is to check if there is an archived version on the internet: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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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
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