I already have the latest 'bypass paywall' clean installed , but I'm finding one of two things lately : either some previous bypassed sites are becoming subject to restrictions or some recently accessible sites are now restricted.

Case in point: Vox.

When I try to read any articles on the site now , I keep getting blocked by a popup that tells me to become a paid member.

The site use to take pride in being (mostly) free but now it appears to be (mostly) paid.

Is there anyway of getting around this?

thanks

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[–] dan@upvote.au 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Scripts/extensions/sites to bypass paywalls can only bypass soft paywalls, where the article is still available in some cases (e.g. you can read a few articles for free, they allow search engines to index the content, etc).

More and more sites are moving towards hard paywalls which can't be bypassed other than someone paying for the site and downloading the content that way, which is legally much more sketchy.

Some paid news sites let members create free links to share articles with non members, which is another option.

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 4 days ago

The good news is that you aren't missing much because Vox videos and articles are a mile wide, and an inch deep.

[–] ThatGuyNamedZeus@feddit.org 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Brave

[–] FartsUnited@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Huh?

[–] ThatGuyNamedZeus@feddit.org 2 points 2 days ago

Brave has a filter list you can enable that works great at bypassing paywalls on news websites

[–] Teddy@programming.dev 4 points 4 days ago

http://txtify.it/

[–] stepan@lemmy.cafe 4 points 4 days ago

https://github.com/everywall/ladder is selfhosted but someone hosts a public instance: https://ladder.nerdvpn.de/ username: ladder password: unpaywall

[–] Xanza@lemm.ee 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

12ft.io usually works for me.

[–] dan@upvote.au 4 points 4 days ago

It's blocked a lot of sites now though.

[–] RedSnt@feddit.dk 3 points 4 days ago

I use an extension which bundles 5 different solutions in one called PaywallHub. I hasn't been updated for a while because it got hit by takedown notices, but the chrome extension and firefox addon repos are still available, you just have to install it a bit more manually: https://github.com/Angeloyo/PaywallHub

[–] sundrei@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 4 days ago

I've had good luck with https://www.removepaywall.com/