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do not right click inspect element on the paywall window and then delete the code & re-enable scrolling (i always forget how to, but don't google it)
the downside is that sometimes half the article is neutered anyway
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 4β¬ 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.
Prepend.
How have I never heard this before now?
Not a programmer I assume?
I'm a programmer, but I feel like I've heard this outside of this field.
Independent journalism is dead because journalists need to be paid. And you guys celebrate this? Yeah, sure, keep reading your "free" news. Just remember to ask yourself who do you think is paying for it and why.
Ad companies with biases and normies/boomers who pay for it without any second guess.
In case anyone wanted to know.
LOL the first trick is my go to. I regularly read Washington Post articles in notepad.
my browser always asks if I want the simplified view which always bypasses the paywall
Simplified view is great on mobile. I just wish you could enable it manually!
DO NOT DISABLE JAVASCRIPT USING AN EXTENSIONS BECAUSE THAT WILL MAKE TRACKING STOP WORKING AND BYPASS PAYWALLS.
It will also simultaneously render the vast majority of the internet useless, and not only the shitty parts that you don't want/need anyway.
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)
reader mode ftw
You would never use DuckDuckGo as your default search engine and then type !archiveis in front of your urlbar visiting a news site.
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.
I use this extension and it lets me bypass pretty much every paywall including NYT's
Best extension along with uBlock Origins!
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.
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.
Eh you're right of course. Like I said below. Search engines have become useless anyway..
It's incredibly easy to make an impossible to get around paywall.
Sure, but the easily-bypassed js method makes sure itβs still crawlable by search engines, which is a trade well worth making where I work. Doesnβt matter as much for porn sites since the title and description arenβt the content most people are there for, so you can expose them on the paywall page.
Absolutely do not inspect elements and start deleting stuff! Leave them alone!
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.
Archive.is is definitely not an alternative that people should use in this situation
Nor archive.ph, which appears to be the same site? Idk how that works. Definitely not a site anyone should go to, though.
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.
Definitely don't use uBlock Origin's zapper mode to get rid of elements on the page that are blocking your view.
Then you just get an unblocked half an article
12ft hardly works for anything for me anymore 
Yeah, unfortunately 12ft.io didn't keep up with the paywall arms race. It's too bad because it was one of those things that a lot of people knew about, many of whom may now just give up when it doesn't work even though there are other options out there.
As one example, there's now also the 13ft ladder: https://github.com/wasi-master/13ft It's like 12ft but self hosted. Sounds really good but I can't vouch for it yet.
I mostly would just archive a paywallrd page with archive.is (aka archive.today, archive.ph, etc.) and that worked great and also helped take traffic away from asshole sites that paywall content. Unfortunately, archive started requiring a cloud flare captcha when archiving a page. This is a deal breaker for me since captcha totally deanonymizes you and is used for tracking purposes and even to train AI. So it defeats a good chunk of the purpose of using an archive site.
Still, there's a good chance that someone else already archived the page you want to see, so putting the url in archive.is search can be enough to bypass the paywall.
I always break the ctrl key right off my keyboard when I get a new computer so I don't accidentally do this.
"Append...before", AKA "prepend"!
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."