[SynAck]

Anybody got recommendations on what software or plugins you use to bypass paywalls on news sites? I know that there are several, I just can't seem to remember any of them at the moment. I even want to bypass those "this is not a paywall" paywalls that want to harvest an email address or whatnot.

If I read a given site more than 3 times in a given month then I'll pay for it. But I'm not giving my email address or signing up for a subscription just to read a 1-off article here and there.

What's the current new hotness for this sort of thing?

[ktnjared]

So, I still use Bypass Paywalls Clean as both an uBlock Origin filter list, but also as a userscript. I works most of the time.

When things don't work from BPC, I use archive.is and that handles pretty much anything I've thrown at it. Any paywalled page you come across, add archive.is/ in front of it.

Example:

1. Paywalled URL:

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   https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/oldtimer-unternehmer-friedhelm-loh-hat-die-teuerste-autosammlung-deutschlands-a-cf80bbea-b0d7-4c0c-ae10-02553aeffb3e

2. Archive.is URL to Unpaywall:

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   archive.is/https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/oldtimer-unternehmer-friedhelm-loh-hat-die-teuerste-autosammlung-deutschlands-a-cf80bbea-b0d7-4c0c-ae10-02553aeffb3e

3. Unpaywalled Result:

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   https://archive.is/tQGYD

[neko.py]

Kill sticky for overlay type things:

https://github.com/t-mart/kill-sticky

and apparently 12ft.io shut down sooo yeah any cache method is good

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I will also recommend using an email forwarding service. it makes giving out emails way less of a big deal since you can just turn them off