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12ft doesn't cut it anymore, any advice on getting past article paywalls (programming.dev)

submitted 10 months ago by Nugelz@programming.dev to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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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.

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[–] moonmeow@lemmy.ml 23 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Try turning off JavaScript when ur faced with an overlaying paywall

[–] Euphoma@lemmy.ml 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, I haven't seen a paywall in years with javascript disabled by default.

[–] sheogorath@lemmy.world 34 points 10 months ago

Some websites circumvent this by only having one paragraph of the story loaded if you turn off JavaScript.

[–] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Try the serious properties, like Economist or FT. Their paywalls are hard.

[–] lud@lemm.ee 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] lud@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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.

[–] mateomaui@reddthat.com 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I’m going to get fired at for saying this, but websites like that are why I keep Brave around as a last resort news backup. Its reader mode didn’t get past FT, but easily did so for the Economist.

(I don’t need education about Brave, but readers can lodge their complaints and do the token rants right here 👇)

[–] Melody@lemmy.one 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean

[–] mateomaui@reddthat.com 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Thanks, I’m aware, but afaik that is not an option on iOS mobile.

edit: just looked again and saw the brief blurb for iOS/iPadOS, will look into it further

[–] library_napper@monyet.cc 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Lots of sites just dont load anything w JS disabled. Nytimes for example

[–] moonmeow@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

Yeah..that happens, but from my experience it works a lot of times