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and DO NOT DEFINITELY pay for journalist’s work, because he certainly do not need to pay taxes, rent and will happily write articles for you free of charge and paywall is just to make you mad
may be your moral concern would have more echo on another communitie
I pay for 404 media and a few others! I still use this extension for everything else
yeah, truth is only something those who can afford to pay should have, better that the poors get their news from Facebook posts as God intended
This is why so many people are misinformed. Good journalism is paywalled while things like Fox News, Newsmax and Sky News aren’t.
Journalists do need to get paid though, and not everyone is okay with ads. People expect too much for free.
Journalists should be funded by the public, as they perform a public service, while simultaneously they should not be required to report favorably upon the state. We just fail to do so because it’s more profitable for the old money that own the current media empires (and Larry Ellison), with the added benefit that the general public are treated like mushrooms – feed them shit and keep them in the dark.
Journalists should be funded by the public, as they perform a public service, while simultaneously they should not be required to report favorably upon the state.
And that’s the crux of the issue, isn’t it? You can’t let corpos piss all over journalism to turn it yellow, and you can’t let a state-run press dictate the citizen’s world view.
Information wants to be free, and that’s realistically the only way it can work.
Sadly 12ft.io has been taken offline
Yeah this is really old and out of date
There is always https://archive.org/ or https://archive.ph/ for example
Disabling Javascript with ublock origin works most of time for me.
Was scary to install that extension but now I can confirm it works as intended
Crazy how to me why this is not more widely known. Best solution.
Every time it’s recommended people shit themselves over the .ru domain. I don’t think people realise just how much pirated content comes out of Russia, it’s very normal and nothing to be afraid of.
The best solution, imho. Been around for a long time and so notorious it got removed for DMCA violations on github and gitlab so it had to move to a service outside US copyright cabal jurisdictions.
Tried and true. :)
Is there any way to install this on Android?Should have read the page first. There are very simple instructions for installing on Android.
I don’t do this. If I see a paywall, I don’t visit the site again.
The Verge recently went with paywalls… I just deleted the bookmark. It was never a very good site anyway. They blasted an Android phone for doing something new, and then praised Apple for doing the exact same thing. I forget what. We were calling them iVerge for a while after that. (It was not recently.) Even as an Apple guy, I could not respect that. But the content has been entertaining, so I kept going back. I definitely will not pay them for their content though.
Oh you mean the guys that hazed an idiot by making him do a pc build tutorial?
Just because it bothered me
append beforeprepend.Forepend.
Foreskin?
Im pro-
prependaproprepending we will go
Apropendi
Pro pend and pro pend accessories
How preprendious of you.
Never ever visit https://byebyepaywall.com/en/ its a dangerous place
And DO NOT DEFINITELY search Internet Archive for the first version of the article!
DuckDuckGo bangs are great for this. Just add
!wayback(with the space) after the URL of the article you are reading, and it will search the Wayback Machine for that article.Example: If the URL for the article is
website.com/propaganda.html, change it towebsite.com/propaganda.html !waybackand press enter.Works with Kagi and Brave too!
Both of you guys are godsends. Thankyou. I never knew this
hah, TIL, thanks!
This also works on Kagi for anybody else using it
I have a JavaScript bookmark that you click from any site that’ll automatically pull up the latest archived version. Super handy.
javascript:window.location.href = "https://web.archive.org/web/" + window.location.href;They have their own browser extension that does that, plus gives you an “archive now” button, and some other stuff I don’t use.
Firefox (or other browsers idk) with reading mode works 90% of the time.
I’ve found more and more that sites are blocking it… But it still works a lot of the time. Maybe like 50/50 for me.
If it doesn’t work, try going into reading mode, then reloading the page. Often times, that catches many of the problematic sites that try to block Reading Mode
Yeah that works sometimes
I never really understood why they make these paywalls so badly i mean, its great for us, fuck paywalls and so, but if i wanted to hide something from someone i would not send the text to them, and then quickly put a white piece of paper over it, hoping you wouldn’t notice.
It’s so strange to me
I guess that they want to be indexed by google for the full content but not to be seen by you.
The reason is a match between SEO and forcing users to pay. The problem is that they want crawler bots and the alike to index the page, so when you search for something mentioned in the article you can actually find it, but when you want to read it, they show you a paywall.
I definitely wouldn’t use reader mode even after the paywall comes up. Don’t ever do that.
My rule of thumb: Do not ever link to, or follow links to, or read the New York Times.
Exactly, those guys are scum. Read the Washington Post, much cooler dudes, totally not parroting billionaire talking points.
I’m sure there’s still a good American newspaper out there somewhere, but I don’t know what it is. All the familiar big ones seem to have fallen.
There aren’t any good ‘big’ ones, but local ones are often worth paying for and supporting since they actually do good journalism.
I love when professors send you a list of sites you should stay away from lest you’ll get an illegitimate copy of the textbook. I love it even more when professors just don’t care about the optics and straight up email the whole class a link to libgen. But there was one professor at my uni that outdid all of them. He just took it upon himself to write a textbook for every course on the entire math curriculum and sold them for like $3-5 depending on the size of the book.
none of these worked for me on NYT, reader mode also did not work. seems sites have gotten around these tricks
Thease tricks depend on sending the full article, then obscuring it with CSS or JavaScript. Lots of places now just won’t send the full text until you pay. So these tricks won’t work.
How is it I never thought to use the print pdf or copy paste trick? Would have saved me a bunch of struggling prior to finding the paywall removers.
