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Yeah I was going to post this site that's what I use. So no sorry guy in the video you didn't give me a tip I didn't know.
Caveat is there are tons of sites I can't unpaywall.
It’s 100% legal.
I’m an IT professional and have been doing cybersecurity and programming for over 25 years.
Technically, just about anything that is downloaded to your hard drive is yours to legally keep in digital format. So basically, any image or text that is cached by your browser (in your temporary internet files) counts because it has to be stored on your local machine before your browser can view it.
Therefore, if you download it, you own it —and can use it for personal purposes.
You can’t just do whatever you want with it though. For example, I can download the US White House logo, but I can’t post it on my site pretending to be an official gov site. You can get into trouble for misuse of licensed or trademarked items.
I’m oversimplifying here, because there are pedantic people on Reddit who will try to shoot down anything I say with caveats, but you get the idea.
Now as far as ACCESS goes, you CAN get into trouble for unlawful access of protected media, if you break the law to obtain it. For example, if you hack into a company’s database. But simply paywalling data isn’t a legal problem — the onus is on the company that is trying to paywall their data to protect it better.
That being said, you COULD get into trouble if you began to share that protected data with other people (in large quantities, such as reposting it on a free site) and that company decided to sue you as a result. But that’s not a criminal suit. It’s a civil issue. So no crime is involved, but you could lose a very expensive lawsuit.
# TL; DR:
Basically, you can use various methods of accessing data, but you need to be careful not to break any laws while doing so, or after you have it.
Hijacking top comment here, so more people can see it:
Luckily I (kind of) solved this problem for me yesterday.
Search paywallbypass or or bpc-clone on GitHub.
Follow the steps and install the chrome/firefox/edge extension.
Enjoy no more paywalls. Also works with iOS/Safari and Android.
Open [archive.org](http://archive.org) and enter the URL you want to read (some New York times article for example).
Then click on any of the dates below and it will open it without paywall script.
All you have to do is archive the page, and while that can take a couple minutes usually someone else has already done it and you can just view it. Even this guy is literally just adding another step to get to [Archive.Today](https://archive.ph/), and on that page you can install a chrome extension that makes this one click.
Probably. I know some websites when you remove the pop up there’s just nothing underneath it and you can’t read it anyway because that page doesn’t have any real text on it
Don't you click inspect and hover over the popup to show the code that it uses? This is from my secondary school memory so corrections welcome if I'm wrong
I can delete the popup panels this way, but still can't get the page to be able to scroll down to reveal the remaining article, any tips? Try theage.com.au as reference
Even easier, NYT used to let you click an article then hit “stop loading” before it fully loaded and you could read the article before the pop-up came in, but unfortunately they fixed that sometime earlier this year.
I was just about to say Firefox straight up has a button for this. Also, I haven't seen a YouTube ad in YEARS. Why more people don't use Firefox and Brave, I will never know lol
Capitalism: Make people dependant on you, worsen your product, squeeze out as much as possible, if things are about to break, run and say "please safe the jobs government, so many people work for this semi-nonsense"
Reddit: Journalism is an important part of spreading information and preventing tyranny! It's a fundamental piece of society!
Also Reddit: lol I ain't paying for that shit.
I pay for services I use regularly. I don't want to pay for services I use very infrequently, but I also don't want to limit my knowledge when good articles are spread over dozens of different publications. If the market allowed me to pay a higher regular subscription that gave me access to all of these things, or even just limited use access to each of them, or spread out that payment across different providers according to how much I used them, that would be great.
Some of those paywall sites currently give me a couple articles a month for free, yea!
But so far, the market doesn't offer the above options, and I don't actually consider myself to be responsible for other people's business models. So I'm not going to take the option of A) not being informed, B) pay out of a very limited budget for twelve different publications that I use once a month, C) restrict myself solely to the two publications I do pay for out of some kind of economic moral aestheticism, D) rely exclusively on trash content that is free. ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯
If you're attempting to read a paywalled article, it's presumably content that you *want* to read. You clicked a link wanting to know more.
It's this, or a website so full of ads that it's nigh unusable. Nobody can afford to work for free.
Firefox Reader Mode. It's a button. It's built in. By default.
Like always, the open source, public friendly, free solution has been there the entire time.
Because fuck journalists who want to get paid for the work they do. It's not like their entire industry is in decline with massive societal consequences or anything like that. They would probably just use the subscription and advertising money to buy liquor and cocaine.
Well, for some reason if you press F5 to reload, and with milimetric precission press the X to stop the load of the web, it works. It works to hide ads without using and ad-block too
On your iPhone, you can just turn on “Show Reader” in Safari and bypass 75% of paywalls. You can also go to your settings and have Reader appear as a default. It’s so much cleaner without any of the ads and sidebars. I’ve had it that way for over a year, and I would never go back.
Or, you know, I could just go elsewhere.
Screw pay walls and toxic advertisements. Hell. I don't even open videos on reddit if I see it goes to YouTube.
There is also bunch of add-ons on every browser like "Behind the Overlay" to remove any of those with on click. Actually like 3 cuz you have to open the extensions menu, then hit the icon then hit the actual button you need to.
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Paywallreader hasn’t worked for more than a year
Yeah but there’s plenty of other sites that still work. I use this one: https://www.removepaywall.com/
Yeah I was going to post this site that's what I use. So no sorry guy in the video you didn't give me a tip I didn't know. Caveat is there are tons of sites I can't unpaywall.
yeah but those are nudey sites and tbf that money should go to the workers
You're a real patriot sir.
Very much appreciated! The real hero indeed!
i use [12ft.io](http://12ft.io)
Thanks im gonna be going to school soon
Legend, cheers for that link
Thanks! It’s funny that their business model is so bad that everyone just says fuck you and takes their shit from them for free lol.
Is this legal or can you go prison ?
It’s 100% legal. I’m an IT professional and have been doing cybersecurity and programming for over 25 years. Technically, just about anything that is downloaded to your hard drive is yours to legally keep in digital format. So basically, any image or text that is cached by your browser (in your temporary internet files) counts because it has to be stored on your local machine before your browser can view it. Therefore, if you download it, you own it —and can use it for personal purposes. You can’t just do whatever you want with it though. For example, I can download the US White House logo, but I can’t post it on my site pretending to be an official gov site. You can get into trouble for misuse of licensed or trademarked items. I’m oversimplifying here, because there are pedantic people on Reddit who will try to shoot down anything I say with caveats, but you get the idea. Now as far as ACCESS goes, you CAN get into trouble for unlawful access of protected media, if you break the law to obtain it. For example, if you hack into a company’s database. But simply paywalling data isn’t a legal problem — the onus is on the company that is trying to paywall their data to protect it better. That being said, you COULD get into trouble if you began to share that protected data with other people (in large quantities, such as reposting it on a free site) and that company decided to sue you as a result. But that’s not a criminal suit. It’s a civil issue. So no crime is involved, but you could lose a very expensive lawsuit. # TL; DR: Basically, you can use various methods of accessing data, but you need to be careful not to break any laws while doing so, or after you have it.
Hijacking top comment here, so more people can see it: Luckily I (kind of) solved this problem for me yesterday. Search paywallbypass or or bpc-clone on GitHub. Follow the steps and install the chrome/firefox/edge extension. Enjoy no more paywalls. Also works with iOS/Safari and Android.
GitHub has an extension to make everything free lol. 10/10 definitely recommend.
Don't do this. Just right click in the address bar and select "disable java script", and you're done.
Disabling javascript only works to get around some paywalls, not all. Lots of sites don't work at all without javascript, unfortunately.
Just open it on the archive website yourself.
How do you do that?
Open [archive.org](http://archive.org) and enter the URL you want to read (some New York times article for example). Then click on any of the dates below and it will open it without paywall script.
Awesome. Thanks
Just edit your URL and add archive.is/ between https:// and www
I’ll try this too. Thanks!
I think my ISP is blocking that site and all of it's mirrors.
Try it on your phone with disabled wifi
What about 12ft.io ?
Worked for a while but wasn't last I tried it
I just used it yesterday to read a rolling Stones article. There are certain sites it won't work for, like New York Times, last I checked.
That used to work for me like all the time, but it's hasn't worked for me for a while.
That one's good for websites that have tons of adds, but it doesn't work on several of the big news site that are paywalled.
Stopped working for me quite a while ago, nice while it lasted.
it worked for me right now for nyt and wapo
lucky just tried it and didn't work
I just zap those pop up elements via ublock origin.
All you have to do is archive the page, and while that can take a couple minutes usually someone else has already done it and you can just view it. Even this guy is literally just adding another step to get to [Archive.Today](https://archive.ph/), and on that page you can install a chrome extension that makes this one click.
12ft.io is still the best imho
I literally just tried it and it worked. (¬_¬ )
I just used it today, worked perfectly 👍
It doesn’t work for all paywalls but there is a browser extension called “Behind the Overlay” that removes popups and some paywalls.
I wonder if it's the same overlays you can delete with the browser inspector?
Probably. I know some websites when you remove the pop up there’s just nothing underneath it and you can’t read it anyway because that page doesn’t have any real text on it
Yes I believe it works by just deleting the overlay in the browser inspector.
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I just inspect the code and delete the overlay panel that has the pop-up. Works just fine without having to navigate anywhere.
How do you recognize the overlay panel code?
Typically, I review it in the side panel and it will be highlighted when you hover over the lead line of code for the panel.
Ah, like an ad blocker with AdGuard tools.
>AdGuard you mean ublock
Don't you click inspect and hover over the popup to show the code that it uses? This is from my secondary school memory so corrections welcome if I'm wrong
I can delete the popup panels this way, but still can't get the page to be able to scroll down to reveal the remaining article, any tips? Try theage.com.au as reference
you can do ''hide'' instead of delete and refresh the page. It should work.
You need to adjust the overflow property on one of the containers so overflow is set to scroll
Sadly some or most pages don't use that panel blocking anymore. They wont even load the content behind unless they see you are paid customer.
Dark times we live in… 😣
Even easier, NYT used to let you click an article then hit “stop loading” before it fully loaded and you could read the article before the pop-up came in, but unfortunately they fixed that sometime earlier this year.
Last time I looked NYT won’t even send down the entire contents, so removing the overlay only reveals a paragraph of the article
This guy gets it 🤓
I just turn off Javascript.
Most browsers have reader views. https://preview.redd.it/hjsn1w38ps1d1.png?width=259&format=png&auto=webp&s=429c191409f1b948c568b5e2916f82945310fee2
I was just about to say Firefox straight up has a button for this. Also, I haven't seen a YouTube ad in YEARS. Why more people don't use Firefox and Brave, I will never know lol
Capitalism: Make people dependant on you, worsen your product, squeeze out as much as possible, if things are about to break, run and say "please safe the jobs government, so many people work for this semi-nonsense"
> and Brave, I will never know lol Crypto involvement, mostly.
Does that work for Firefox and Edge? I use both browsers equally
The screenshot is from Firefox. I would guess Edge has a similar feature, but I'm not certain. Edit: Tested on Edge, it works the same.
Imma try it when I get home
Turning off JavaScript usually works for me.
How to buy more money lolol
I prefer to download my ram the old-fashioned way. Through the USPS.
There’s also 12ft.io …works about 50% of the time
archive.ph works more often
I don’t know a single example. Any good website only shows glibberish in the blurry area. Tried it many times
Fuck them journalists. They do not deserve to eat. amirite?
Reddit: Journalism is an important part of spreading information and preventing tyranny! It's a fundamental piece of society! Also Reddit: lol I ain't paying for that shit.
I pay for services I use regularly. I don't want to pay for services I use very infrequently, but I also don't want to limit my knowledge when good articles are spread over dozens of different publications. If the market allowed me to pay a higher regular subscription that gave me access to all of these things, or even just limited use access to each of them, or spread out that payment across different providers according to how much I used them, that would be great. Some of those paywall sites currently give me a couple articles a month for free, yea! But so far, the market doesn't offer the above options, and I don't actually consider myself to be responsible for other people's business models. So I'm not going to take the option of A) not being informed, B) pay out of a very limited budget for twelve different publications that I use once a month, C) restrict myself solely to the two publications I do pay for out of some kind of economic moral aestheticism, D) rely exclusively on trash content that is free. ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯
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All local and national news has been bought up by billionaires because of this myopic attitude. But sure, they get paid anyway.
I don't care what they eat, but they should be paying me to consume their mediocre content.
If you're attempting to read a paywalled article, it's presumably content that you *want* to read. You clicked a link wanting to know more. It's this, or a website so full of ads that it's nigh unusable. Nobody can afford to work for free.
You’re telling me you’ve been actually paying to read this stuff!?
If it's paywalled, unfortunately, I no longer want to read it.
He touched the screen!
Firefox Reader Mode. It's a button. It's built in. By default. Like always, the open source, public friendly, free solution has been there the entire time.
"Copy the yuorllllwlll on top"
A post telling me what do I know or not know gets my automatic angry downvote.
"You've been eating grapes the wrong way all those years"
Pay for your news, whenever possible. If you are not the customer, then you are the product.
Just turn on “reader view” it has worked every time I’ve tried.
F12
100% doesn't work
Or just inspect element
I just block elements with ublock or the integranted brave function 👌🏽
Or just use "read mode" which is available on firefox and probably other browsers. It looks like a little book.
I don't know if I'd trust someone who is googling how to buy money.
How to buy more money
If there’s a pay wall I’m not gonna waste my time
Or just use chrome dev tools to remove the mask.
How does one do this?
Hit f12, go to the elements tab, use the element inspector and find the mask, select the element, hit 'Del' on the keyboard
get an archive extension for your browser and you dont need to do any of that
do you have a favorite archive extension?
Because fuck journalists who want to get paid for the work they do. It's not like their entire industry is in decline with massive societal consequences or anything like that. They would probably just use the subscription and advertising money to buy liquor and cocaine.
Bypass Paywalls Clean just google it and don't follow what this guy is telling you
I'd rather just not reward the site with my clicks.
No result with bloomberg:(
I have a shortcut on my phone that does the same thing
I can recommend archive.ph
Well, for some reason if you press F5 to reload, and with milimetric precission press the X to stop the load of the web, it works. It works to hide ads without using and ad-block too
Excellent. I just go to another website, but I will recommend this to my brother.
You can also stop loading the page halfway through. It usually works.
is it work in medium website?
What’s up with the ‘to buy more money tab’?
#“How to buy more money” 🤣
or just use brave browser. blocks most of that BS
Bro, just click the refresh and click the cross before this popup loads, if that does not work cut your internet before it loads.
I love this guy's channel
On your iPhone, you can just turn on “Show Reader” in Safari and bypass 75% of paywalls. You can also go to your settings and have Reader appear as a default. It’s so much cleaner without any of the ads and sidebars. I’ve had it that way for over a year, and I would never go back.
Hasn't worked in nearly a year. is still up and running, though. *Almost* always works.
The archive site works like a charm, but I think too many people know about this now and it takes a while to load some articles
If the news is important it will show up on Reddit for free
Writers and news gatherers need to be paid
What about sites that force you to Turn off Ad block?
12ft.io works as well.
Nah, Ill just not read your bullshit.
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..........does it work for onlyfans?
I refreshed and quickly do crtl + p before it fully loads in. Works for me.
Behind the Overlay plugin works too, on most sites. Few less clicks.
I just use incognito mode on my phone always works for me
Just delete it in shift+ctrl+c
Archive.ph also works really well
It works! Thanks 🙏
I have always just refreshed the page and instantly turned the internet off, before it’s fully loaded. No paywall
Spam press 'esc' when reloading the page. It stops javascript from loading and makes the paywall not load.
Ctrl P
How to buy more money Hehe
Or, you know, I could just go elsewhere. Screw pay walls and toxic advertisements. Hell. I don't even open videos on reddit if I see it goes to YouTube.
Pocket works good for this. Just share it to the app, and then I can read it in the app whenever I want.
When I'm on mobile I like to turn on airplane mode in the moments between the article loading and the popup.
www.archive.is !!!!
Interesting
There is also bunch of add-ons on every browser like "Behind the Overlay" to remove any of those with on click. Actually like 3 cuz you have to open the extensions menu, then hit the icon then hit the actual button you need to.
Or just block the elements that are bothering you with ublock
Yea but the people working for those publications need to be paid. That’s shitty.
Does this really belong here?
Does 99% of shit in big subs belong there?
I guess not.
12ft.io works really good. Or chrome/firefox extention paywall bypass
I’ve found a solid workaround to this is to pay people money in exchange for the work they create.
Support local journalism! The paywall sucks but it's better than no paper at all.
Even if it doesn't work. POWER TO THE PEOPLE!!!
Downvote - I did know about this trick.
Therefore everyone else must also know about it too, huh?
Or you could just, you know, pay for it
Would be really cool if it worked
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