Firefox has had a Reader View feature for a while now. But adding the 'Bypass Paywalls clean' filter on ublock origin in Firefox for Windows and Firefox for Android works the best for me. https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-clean-filters
Excellent tip! Pretty stoked to discover how many modern web annoyances can be defeated by OSS!
I have yet to find a paywall I couldn't bypass. They all work the same way because they need the content to be exposed to be found by crawlers
There are some sites that I can't figure out how to bypass, for example thelogic.co. The full article doesn't seem to load unless you pay/log in and no matter what I've tried it doesn't work.
Another way to bypass paywalls (especially the ones that restrict content directly from the server) is archive.today. It basically has bots (sometimes with accounts, for example if it's a LinkedIn link) that will open up the page for you if it's the first time the link is accessed on archive.today, then the bot will render it without Javascript and will save a snapshot on the server, and you then get to see the latter.
I use this a lot. Got the sharchive app from f-droid, so I can share articles to it to quickly bring up.
btw, did 12ft.io work?
12ft.io was bought out and now the big news agencies won’t get bypassed.
I use https://www.removepaywall.com now.
good to know 👍
I never tried that but this removes a step and makes it super easy for me. I've tried the websites where you enter the address and get a mirror of the article, but it always seemed clunky.
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