Most paywalls know this and don’t load the content at all. Don’t do it because it doesn’t work
Yep. They’ve gotten smarter. Some of the plugins and tools websites use to create a paywall will actually only render part of the article to the browser before the user signs up. They used to simply mask it and you could remove the paywall via editing some CSS in the browser’s dev tools to see all of the text, but that’s not the case anymore.
Source: web dev for ~20 years.
Server-side paywalling? Everything old is new again.
Yeah this hasn’t been working for a while
My strategy with paywalls is to close the tab and go somewhere else. It works fine and is a great way to let the website owner this bullshit make them lose viewers and visibility.
Wow, I do the same thing! How great!
Appending 12ft.io is not dangerous. Prepending it however is.
Also definitely refrain from pasting in the URL into https://archive.is as it is definitely illegal to circumvent paywalls by pretending to be a google web crawler to archive the site
Thanks for the heads up. This will make sure we never commit such criminal activity ever again.
Wow that’s a lot of effort compared to just blocking CSS and javascript with something like uMatrix.
uMatrix has been depreceated for several years now sadly
Just use https://GitHub.com/bpc-clone
Have you clicked that URL?
You need to go to the repositories tab in order to find the repos for chrome and firefox respecively
Right, the private profile message fooled me. Sorry
I’m on mobile and it was working last time I tried
Q: “Why is journalism dying?”
A:
Journalism has been dead for ages. Now, satire (like The Onion), that’s informative.
Because modern “journalists” only know how to copy and paste from other “news sites” and random social media posts.
