Bypass Paywalls extension for Firefox.
Works better and for more sites in my experience.
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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 🤦
Try custom collections feature:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-use-collections-addonsmozillaorg
Looks like it SHOULD work, but when I search for addons, I get quick (far too quick to select any of them m) flashes of gray rectangles where suggestions would normally be and no search results after I execute the search.
I'm beginning to suspect that the Firefox app is broken 😕
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.
https://archive.md/ gets around way more paywalls. Highly recommend it.
disabling js does more
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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?
I use bypass paywalls clean and never see a paywall. so... yes.
it doesn't work for medium articles in my experience
I haven't had any issues with medium personally. But I have pretty extensive blocking as a whole (ublock, adguard, ghostery, ddg, bypass paywalls clean, canvas blocker, etc)
Why so many blocking extensions?
I'm paranoid.
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.
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It's just a glorified web scraper, I didn't know it was this popular. You could build a barebones scraper and output in less than 10 lines with curl in PHP. And 12ftio used to inject its own code into the output, it's funny how people were Ozzy with that.
Everyone who ever does web scraping knew serving it on his own public domain was going to be a problem.
Boy, people are lazy.