Ask HN: What happened to bypass-paywalls-Chrome-clean?

#1

Post by latchkey » Thu, Apr 11, 2024, 10:54 PM UTC

Seems to have disappeared off gitlab and the developer's profile has been made private. This must have just happened within the last couple of days as they were updating twitter with new releases.

https://twitter.com/Magnolia1234B

https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/

https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean

Re: Ask HN: What happened to bypass-paywalls-Chrome-clean?

#2

Post by hunggnuh85 » Thu, Apr 11, 2024, 11:16 PM UTC

Actually, just within today. I was still able to access the project several hours ago. The "filter version" is still alive: https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-clean-filter...

Re: Ask HN: What happened to bypass-paywalls-Chrome-clean?

#3

Post by mikequinlan » Fri, Apr 12, 2024, 7:21 AM UTC

https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean seems to be available again.

Re: Ask HN: What happened to bypass-paywalls-Chrome-clean?

#4

Post by zerof1l » Fri, Apr 12, 2024, 9:03 PM UTC

edit: https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bpc-uploads/ is down now as well.

Here's a magnet link with all its contents magnet:?xt=urn:btih:7839e845f7965bed1035dc5d4635811d1ede73d2&dn=magnolia1234-bypass-paywalls-uploads-master

Re: Ask HN: What happened to bypass-paywalls-Chrome-clean?

#5

Post by MasterIQ » Sat, Apr 13, 2024, 1:12 AM UTC

    The user is reported to be blocked on GitLab.
    And whose Twitter page seems to exhibit unusual loading issue: HTTP 404 of certain sub-requests.

Re: Ask HN: What happened to bypass-paywalls-Chrome-clean?

#6

Post by justinclift » Sat, Apr 13, 2024, 1:48 AM UTC

mikequinlan wrote: post #3

https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean seems to be available again.

Seems to be gone (again?) when checking just now.

Re: Ask HN: What happened to bypass-paywalls-Chrome-clean?

#7

Post by mikequinlan » Sat, Apr 13, 2024, 1:50 AM UTC

justinclift wrote: post #6

mikequinlan wrote: post #3

https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean seems to be available again.

Seems to be gone (again?) when checking just now.

Yes, and now the account is 'Blocked' instead of 'Private'.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40015961

Re: Ask HN: What happened to bypass-paywalls-Chrome-clean?

#8

Post by hydrowater80 » Sat, Apr 13, 2024, 2:21 AM UTC

Anyone have suggestions for hosting the repo elsewhere?

Re: Ask HN: What happened to bypass-paywalls-Chrome-clean?

#9

Post by hexagonwin » Sat, Apr 13, 2024, 3:16 AM UTC

Damn, this was pretty essential nowadays. Anyone able to contact the dev?

Re: Ask HN: What happened to bypass-paywalls-Chrome-clean?

#10

Post by swiftness427 » Sat, Apr 13, 2024, 9:15 AM UTC

@Magnolia1234B posted this on Twitter/X about an hour ago:

Bypass Paywalls Clean blocked on GitLab: another day another DMCA takedown notice ...

I'll consider later if I'm going to upload the code again on some GitHub alternative. For now update your extension/add-on manually (zip with latest extension versions): https://we.tl/t-ZHD2Ioi4aQ

I downloaded the file and can confirm it is updated and working.