Yeah 12ft doenst seem to work on any sites anymore. Does anyone have any alternatives that work? I’m already familiar with the airplane mode trick but that’s not always fit for purpose.
Time to dig out that 14ft ladder
I use this on Firefox Mobile and desktop and it works great
Ah, navigating those paywalls can be tricky, especially when 12ft isn’t cutting it. Have you tried using extensions like Unpaywall? They can be quite effective for accessing articles. Speaking of easy access, if you want to streamline how you manage your health expenses, don’t forget you can register for MyWakeHealth to manage health bills. It’s a straightforward way to keep your healthcare finances in check!
is there a difference between .ph and .is?
Yes.
Edit: I answered the question. You guys have no chill.
what is it? (other than “ph” or “is” in the url)
Clearly you already know the difference /s
I have no idea, I just use and remember the one I linked above.
ok cool thank you for clearing that up
Try turning off JavaScript when ur faced with an overlaying paywall
Yeah, I haven’t seen a paywall in years with javascript disabled by default.
Some websites circumvent this by only having one paragraph of the story loaded if you turn off JavaScript.
Try the serious properties, like Economist or FT. Their paywalls are hard.
The economist is a bad example lol.
Their site loads the content before it locks it down. So you can just reload the side and press reading mode before it removes it again.
If true, it’s all but impossible to actually do this on a normal-speed connection. I had the impression they stopped this method a while ago.
Worked fine on a 200 Mbit/s connection yesterday at least.
I can try a gigabit or even 2 gigabit connection next week.
The developer tab in browsers also has a way to throttle the connection if you want.
I use Firefox btw.
Add this to your custom filter list.
Bypass Paywalls Clean filter. Works for me with local papers and others like NYTimes etc.
Do I add this to my Pi-hole?
Eh, no… I meant in the settings in uBlock Origin, which you would already have installed as an addon in your browser of choice. Choose open dashboard, it opens at filter lists and down the bottom is ‘Import’, just below ‘Custom’. Add the url to import, it’ll do its thing and you’ll have a new entry in ‘Custom’. Sorry, don’t know much about Pi-Holes.
Oh right! Already use Ublock will give this a go.
No prob! Coupled with zero ads, it’s like it used to be back in the day, just… well, an article with some images. Good luck!
Bump for justice, ty
That’s one short ladder.
The archive sites work great, even for WSJ articles. I just checked after I saw your comment saying archive.ph doesn’t work for WSJ articles, and it works fine for archiving WSJ articles.
It’s cuts off the particular article I want to read, so seems like there is a word limit! Drat!
Which article? That is interesting, I haven’t had that issue yet, but I just started using these archived pages a couple weeks ago so I’m curious about their limits
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Okay, thanks. I tested a bunch of articles in duckduckgo and haven’t come across that yet, but I’ll test a cross browsers and see what happens. I’ll pay attention to the fading text.
Have you tried a different browser but still using the archive pages?
What is 12ft?
12ft.io is a website that allows you to bypass paywalls on websites. Specifically for articles/news. The idea being “show me a 10ft wall and I’ll build a 12ft ladder.” It worked well against a lot of article and news outlet paywalls originally, but as time has gone on more and more sites are starting to show up on it as unable to bypass.
So what you’re saying is that we need 13ft.io
Go as small as possible so that our ladder only has to get slightly longer. Plus I’m petty.
Ah got it, thanks.
The great enshittification continues.
How is it enshittification to stop people from pirating your stuff?
On the one hand, you’re absolutely right.
On the other hand “The truth is paywalled, but the lies are free.”
Simple filterlists, by definition, only work for a short time. Maybe a specific userscript can help. There are also Extensions, which redirect to articles about the same content to sites without paywall, like Unpaywall do, which is maybe the best option.
In Firefox, to use userscripts, you need to install first an Userscript Manage, like Tampermonkey, Violentmonkey, etc. which you find in the Mozilla Store. In Vivaldi it isn’t needed, simply download the script to a folder (don’t delete it) and drag it to the Extension Page in Developer mode in the Browser, to install it directly as an extension.
This extension works pretty well https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome
