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[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

How does this, (or 12ft.io for that matter) actually work? Client-side trickery? Magic cookies? Something like adblock?

EDIT: Apparently it just blocks JS and disguises itself as an SE crawler. This still doesn't work on sites like Bloomberg, and if I understand correctly nothing can be done there.

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

I use the Bypass Paywalls Clean extension in Firefox to access Bloomberg, among others. I had it installed before it got taken down, so be careful where you get it from nowadays.

[–] rtdaly@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] sag@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's not open source? Git repo just have Extensions binary file.

[–] wurstgulasch3000@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yea I'm not gonna install binary extensions hosted on some Russian site

[–] Dymonika@beehaw.org 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I've never gotten even the original 12ft to work a single time. Bypass Paywalls Clean is the only thing that has worked for me incredibly consistently

I just installed this a couple days ago and already used it twice. It's super easy and convenient.

[–] RandomLegend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] GlenRambo@jlai.lu 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What sites do you use it for?

[–] RandomLegend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago

Mostly some news sites I really don't want to support but want to see one article of

[–] worsedoughnut@lemdro.id 3 points 2 months ago

I wish I had even half the braincells required to understand the installation for this.

[–] KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago
[–] xoggy@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago

Just a grammatical nitpick in the readme but as a compound adjective it would be 13-foot Ladder. "That ladder is 13 feet tall" vs "That is a 13-foot tall ladder".