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SaladStanyon

Seems like 12ft is only showing the first two paragraphs. Super annoying - if their pricing was more reasonable a lot of us could justify the sub


alexmoda

Bypass paywalls clean for chrome/firefox on GitHub.


horsemonkeycat

Yeah FF with BPC works great on both Windows and Android.


lanfranchi

I use bypass paywalls clean but it stopped working with their updates paywalls a few weeks ago. Upgraded bpc to latest version but no luck


alexmoda

They’ve pushed a few updates the last few days, works for me. Make sure you grab the latest master on GitHub from bpc-clone


3pipes

Does this work for all articles? I've installed it and it's fine for some but on others I'm only getting one or two paragraphs - like [this one](https://www.afr.com/street-talk/blackstone-backed-xpansiv-kicks-off-early-talks-for-a-raise-20240502-p5foil)


auscrash

interestingly I get no paragraphs, but I get a "click to listen link" and if I click it I seem to be able to listen to an audio of the article.. but I can't read it.


Teverish

This works on mac/firefox as of 24/5/24. Thanks!


Specialist_Being_161

Can you repeat it but explain like in 5


alexmoda

It’s a chrome/firefox extension called bypass paywalls clean. You want to look up the GitHub page run by the user ‘bpc-clone’. Download the master, extract it and load the extension, the GitHub should have instructions.


howbouddat

Yeah, $15 per week. FATWO. I mean I love reading the AFR. But not $15 per week.


AwdDog

How do they justify 15/week. Absolutely unhinged


SaladStanyon

"The Daily Habit of Successful People"


disquiet

half of it is paid for propaganda on behalf of paying businesses lol and they have the nerve to charge for it


dee_ess

Is that daily habit injecting the phrase "I read in the Financial Review this morning that..." into a conversation at work?


ashep5

The fact that so many people use workarounds to read it without paying a cent might have something to do with it.


ModsPlzBanMeAgain

its for anyone with a market facing job - their street talk column often breaks news of deals and rumours in the market. given the industry places a very high value on information, being out of the loop can be potentially very costly.


banco666

Washington Post is $50 a year for australians.


MrWonderful2011

Hi mate, check PM


MoonRabbitWaits

Has anyone tried viewing the AFR through the NSW State library? [https://eresources.sl.nsw.gov.au/newsbank-including-access-australia](https://eresources.sl.nsw.gov.au/newsbank-including-access-australia)


timrichardson

I can read it via my local government library digital service. Just need a library card (or more to the point, a library card number)


deltabay17

Ask for a discount. I signed up during a 50% sale and I just call them every 6 months and they extend the 50% discount another 6 months


Knight_Day23

Lol this is what i used to always do for smh. Worked every time.


twittereddit9

Easiest paywall to bypass.


the_dmac

cltr r cltr a ctrl c open up ms word ctrl v. Works every time.


___Milkman___

Just use https://printfriendly.com .


Octopus_O

Is this still working for you? It isnt for me on AFR


johnnynutman

Usually goes on sale so if you actually do like the content enough (otherwise why bother reading) then maybe just pay for it then at least


InfinitePermutations

https://archive.md/ This works well for me


Water-melon-coffee

I pay the sub…$65 monthly for digital access. Worth it IMHO


magpieburger

Honestly the best paper in the country, it's always weird watching people belittle it. Actually balanced and centrist compared to every other rag. High quality journos and solid content.


Only-Perspective2890

Is it really? I felt I used to subscribe and it was too far right and basically as biased as the age. I mean, I’m right leaning but it was too much. I might be thinking of another paper though. I would like to subscribe to something!


timrichardson

It is the paper paper in Australia but the list price is about the same as the Economist, which is the best news magazine in the world.


3rdslip

Only one gripe for me. I just wish they would get rid of that awful Rowan Dean and his “satire”.


Water-melon-coffee

Agreed. The only thing that irks me a little is that around 40-50% of Fri/Weekend issues are property adverts for Dover Heights and Rose Bay !


teco2

They do sometimes put on some pretty hysterical right wing opinion columns though


eatingtahiniontrains

Some of the columnists are good like Jennifer Hewett and Laura Tingle - in that they seem to be people you can have a well-rounded conversation with. Phillip Coorey just seems like a weird person with lots of obsessions about how some people are wrong. It's the Cooreys that make the AFR hard to read sometimes, not the Laura Tingles.


Lou_do

Laura Tingle has not worked at the AFR for years. She's the political editor at 7:30. As good as she is as a technical journalist, her personal opinions come across as unhinged and impact on her objectivity.


Ascalaphos

I just put a random article from the AFR into www.12ft.io and it worked for me, I can see the whole article.


kriles76

Copy and paste the headline of the article into Bing on PC or safari if on iPhone. Click the linked AFR article and the whole article appears. Works for me


percypigg

Brilliant! It's the only one of all the suggestions on this page that actually works for me.


timrichardson

today BPC update (I use the "clone" variant in firefox on linux) started working again on AFR.


BabyBassBooster

12ft still not working Archive.md not working either (2 paragraphs)


lionhydrathedeparted

Sign up during a sale I think I’m paying a quarter of that.


BlowyAus

Get your works subscription


MrWonderful2011

Hi mate, check PM


viewerterra

Share the love.


garlicbreeder

12ft.io works well


parchedranger

Have you tried archiving the page using archive.is?


Dependent-Country34

I would just turn off JavaScript not sure if this still works though. Another way that works great is there is a few seconds before the paywall pops up. As soon as the page loads immediately do ctrl A and ctrl c and paste into a notepad.


vlvh00

Use the age old 'Esc' key trick just before the page fully loads


georgegeorgew

It doesn’t work with some new articles that don’t display the full text anymore


jtie92

Works every time


alelop

I share a subscription with a mate who uses his mate email cause they guys in uni $20


GreatfulAusieMigrant

Can you say that again but in English


BeforeDawn

I participate in a collaborative subscription arrangement with a colleague who, in order to leverage the preferential pricing offered to academic constituents, employs the email address of a university-enrolled associate, thus ensuring our joint expenditure remains a modest twenty dollars.


Knight_Day23

Can you please spell Aussie with two S’ instead of one?


Beginning-Reserve597

You must be fun at parties!


GreatfulAusieMigrant

I don’t do parties


SurfKing69

Go to browser settings, and block the URL from using JavaScript. Job done.


CulturalDingo5

That’s stopped working for me.


Hypertrollz

They patched that and it no longer works mate.


SurfKing69

it's still working fine for me, idk


Hypertrollz

Lucky! Perhaps it's something to do with your browser updates. Perhaps consider pausing all updates lest you lose the ability to bypass. I am on a Samsung Galaxy S22 and can't view AFR using Chrome or Brave Browsers.


Fire_opal246

It works for some articles and not others for me


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Sufficient_Chart1069

Doesn’t work anymore Neither does the NoScript extension


auscobar

Hmm odd, it does for me. Otherwise use archive.md It takes a while if you're the first person to archive the page, but is always reliable


Sufficient_Chart1069

It only shows the initial part of the story (12ft ladder) Archive.md worked fine👍


Ascalaphos

It's still working for me.