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[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 minutes ago

Many sites don't work like that and don't even load the content from the server before the paywall check.

But I have a trick that work 100% of the time. Just don't read those sites.

I get that journalism and entertainment magazines have workers and need to be paid BUT:

They were getting paid when I could pay a cheap physical newspaper if I want to read it and usually had those for free anyway. As you'll get newspapers on most public places and one single newspaper would serve a whole family. In my house we didn't really paid more than 4€ a month and got physical things that you could just keep. Now with digital distribution you own nothing and it is far more expensive. So... No. Also they get a ton of public money through institutional advertisement, so I'm already basically paying for them without getting access to their content.

So unless they are willing to change their model I'll just refuse to live. I'm happier without their clickbaits anyway.

[–] riodoro1@lemmy.world 9 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

How have I never heard this before now?

[–] riodoro1@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

Not a programmer I assume?

LOL the first trick is my go to. I regularly read Washington Post articles in notepad.

[–] tilefan@lemm.ee 5 points 4 hours ago

my browser always asks if I want the simplified view which always bypasses the paywall

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 10 points 5 hours ago

DO NOT DISABLE JAVASCRIPT USING AN EXTENSIONS BECAUSE THAT WILL MAKE TRACKING STOP WORKING AND BYPASS PAYWALLS.

[–] Pickle_Jr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Firefox has a button that shows up in the url that kind of turns the webpage into an e-book-esque view that pops up for most articles (especially Pay Wall)

[–] drbluefall@toast.ooo 4 points 1 hour ago

reader mode ftw

[–] attero@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 5 hours ago

You would never use DuckDuckGo as your default search engine and then type !archiveis in front of your urlbar visiting a news site.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 13 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)
[–] sudoer777@lemmy.ml 25 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

Doesn't NYT cut off most of the article now? I used to just be able to disable JS but that didn't work anymore last I checked.

[–] Alsephina@lemmy.ml 11 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (12 children)

I use this extension and it lets me bypass pretty much every paywall including NYT's

[–] hunt4peas@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 hours ago

Best extension along with uBlock Origins!

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[–] xenoclast@lemmy.world 11 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (2 children)

Yeah the article stub doesn't link to the article. It links to a login flow with the article id. If you go directly to the article you get redirected if you don't have a session.

It's incredibly easy to make an impossible to get around paywall. Porn has done it since the Internet existed.

In this very particular situation I'm glad most companies are lazy and stupid.

I don't particularly care if a company does pay only content. I think its legitimately ok. I hate companies that don't make you pay enough for the service to cover their costs thus leading to complete enshitifaction.

[–] ChuckEffingNorris@lemmy.ml 8 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I thought the issue was they wanted search engines to be able to see the content, but not non paying viewers? Hence slightly shitty paywalls.

[–] xenoclast@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

Eh you're right of course. Like I said below. Search engines have become useless anyway..

[–] humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (2 children)

It's incredibly easy to make an impossible to get around paywall.

Sure, but the easily-bypassed js method makes sure it’s still crawlable by search engines, which is a trade well worth making where I work. Doesn’t matter as much for porn sites since the title and description aren’t the content most people are there for, so you can expose them on the paywall page.

[–] xenoclast@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Very true. I don't disagree at all. I think once google finally becomes totally useless. It won't matter.

I mean Google is already just Yellow Pages AdWords edition with AI content

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[–] polysics@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Brave browser has a filter to bypass paywalls. Works on desktop and mobile versions. Definitely works on NYT as I just read something there today. And of course has built in adblock. You can also add additional filters and adblock lists.

Bonus: print to PDF in Brave to share an article with someone else. It retains all the graphics relevant to the article and cuts all the junk and ads out too.

[–] spamspeicher@feddit.org 1 points 5 hours ago

For that to work you have to use Brave browser. Ewwww. Firefox does the same with add-ons.

[–] AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 9 points 9 hours ago

Absolutely do not inspect elements and start deleting stuff! Leave them alone!

[–] 30p87@feddit.org 122 points 15 hours ago (10 children)

12ft.io almost never works for me tbh.

Also, appending before something is called prepending, similar to how a prefix after something is a suffix.

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 60 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Archive.is is definitely not an alternative that people should use in this situation

[–] SolarMonkey 11 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

Nor archive.ph, which appears to be the same site? Idk how that works. Definitely not a site anyone should go to, though.

[–] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 6 hours ago

Nor archive.md nor archive.today, which appear to be run by the same rogue actors and serve the same content as archive.is and archive.ph. Beware.

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[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 17 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I always break the ctrl key right off my keyboard when I get a new computer so I don't accidentally do this.

[–] DaCrazyJamez@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 hours ago

I do that with the windows key...

[–] Kalkaline@leminal.space 75 points 15 hours ago (10 children)

Definitely don't use uBlock Origin's zapper mode to get rid of elements on the page that are blocking your view.

[–] skeezix@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

Then you just get an unblocked half an article

[–] janNatan@lemmy.ml 32 points 15 hours ago

Disabling JavaScript through ublock origin also does the same (horrible) thing, frequently.

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 6 points 11 hours ago

I have been using inspect element to manually remove ads and other annoying things

Thanks for reminding me!

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[–] AlpacaChariot@lemmy.world 19 points 13 hours ago

"Append...before", AKA "prepend"!

[–] QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz 51 points 15 hours ago (5 children)

And God forbid if someone uses archiving sites like archive.is!

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[–] Metostopholes@midwest.social 40 points 15 hours ago

Back during prohibition in the US, there was a product called Vine-Glo that was a brick of grape concentrate. It came with a warning: "After dissolving the brick in a gallon of water, do not place the liquid in a jug away in the cupboard for twenty days, because then it would turn into wine."

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

excellent psa

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