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Bypass Paywalls: a browser extension to help bypass paywalls for selected sites

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Re: Bypass Paywalls: a browser extension to help bypass paywalls for selected sites

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Post by elldoubleyew »

forgotmyoldacc wrote: post #11
elldoubleyew wrote: post #2

edit: After checking the repo it appears that this is not a a new extension, nor has there been any recent update. Seems like a new extension for this pops up every few months until the content publishers get savvy to the latest workaround and someone else finds a new method. Originally these would just set the referrer to a search engine regardless of where the link came from and the paywall would go away, I'm not s…

This extension has been around for 2 years, and has worked reliably. Just need to update it once in awhile.

Oh, I was under the impression that this was something new. Should have actually checked the repo first I suppose.

Re: Bypass Paywalls: a browser extension to help bypass paywalls for selected sites

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Post by jmckib »

pier25 wrote: post #37
another_poster wrote: post #21

PSA: Newspapers educate the public, and their services are essential for the functioning of our democracies. The best newspapers fund their operations through subscriptions, so please help society become well-informed by subscribing to your favorite newspapers.

We need a better solution than subscribing to a monolithic news source. Specially when they make it super hard to unsubscribe cough NYT cough .

Washington Post lets you cancel through their website without talking to anyone. It's also significantly cheaper than NYT last I checked. I'm a subscriber, and I think it's a pretty solid paper especially for national politics coverage.

Re: Bypass Paywalls: a browser extension to help bypass paywalls for selected sites

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Post by rplnt »

yupper32 wrote: post #40
another_poster wrote: post #21

PSA: Newspapers educate the public, and their services are essential for the functioning of our democracies. The best newspapers fund their operations through subscriptions, so please help society become well-informed by subscribing to your favorite newspapers.

I pay for NYT, but I can't subscribe to the paper of every article I want to read. I need some kind of group subscription for it to be feasible.

I don't want to pay a subscription, I want to pay for content I actually consume. I hate that paywalls incentivize to write clickbait even more than ads do. I hate opinion pieces pretending to be something else. I hate paying for copy-pasted texts from news agencies or press releases. But as with TV, you have to pay in bulk and if the good content is sold separately it's extremely expensive.

Re: Bypass Paywalls: a browser extension to help bypass paywalls for selected sites

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Post by wrycoder »

NikolaNovak wrote: post #45
pier25 wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We need a better solution than subscribing to a monolithic news source. Specially when they make it super hard to unsubscribe cough NYT cough .

Oh man; I was going to support the GP post, but then I remembered what unsubscribing from The Economist was like, and my mouth is filed with Bile & my brain is filled with pure sheer hate.

Question: how do you unsubscribe on Substack?

Answer:

Re: Bypass Paywalls: a browser extension to help bypass paywalls for selected sites

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Post by munk-a »

yupper32 wrote: post #40
another_poster wrote: post #21

PSA: Newspapers educate the public, and their services are essential for the functioning of our democracies. The best newspapers fund their operations through subscriptions, so please help society become well-informed by subscribing to your favorite newspapers.

I pay for NYT, but I can't subscribe to the paper of every article I want to read. I need some kind of group subscription for it to be feasible.

I would pay for NYT but their unsubscription process has traditionally been notoriously and unnecessarily difficult. I have a personal moral objection to giving money to any company that makes it more difficult to stop giving them money than to start.

Yes, there have also been major factual blunders, but for the vast majority of information they seem to genuinely try and deliver vetted facts.

Re: Bypass Paywalls: a browser extension to help bypass paywalls for selected sites

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Post by aezell »

hamaluik wrote: post #50

Is there a service in the same vein as music streaming, but for news outlets? I'd be happy to pay for a subscription somewhere at a reasonable price, but not happy to pay for and manage 150+ individual subscriptions (like what this tool provides). Granted I wouldn't ever actually sign up for most of them, but managing even more than a couple would be rather undesirable. Perhaps something with pay-per-view built in, g…

Apple News does this. Tons of magazines across the spectrum and number of larger US newspapers. If you aren't in the US or at least wanting to read in English, I don't know.

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Post by jwilliams »

hamaluik wrote: post #50

Is there a service in the same vein as music streaming, but for news outlets? I'd be happy to pay for a subscription somewhere at a reasonable price, but not happy to pay for and manage 150+ individual subscriptions (like what this tool provides). Granted I wouldn't ever actually sign up for most of them, but managing even more than a couple would be rather undesirable. Perhaps something with pay-per-view built in, g…

Take a look at https://www.inkl.com/

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Post by z3c0 »

another_poster wrote: post #21

PSA: Newspapers educate the public, and their services are essential for the functioning of our democracies. The best newspapers fund their operations through subscriptions, so please help society become well-informed by subscribing to your favorite newspapers.

Fair enough, but I often wonder if this new arrangement in the availability of quality information will cause any problems for the lower class. A lot of political rhetoric does gear itself towards the poor, after all.

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Post by xoqem »

hamaluik wrote: post #50

Is there a service in the same vein as music streaming, but for news outlets? I'd be happy to pay for a subscription somewhere at a reasonable price, but not happy to pay for and manage 150+ individual subscriptions (like what this tool provides). Granted I wouldn't ever actually sign up for most of them, but managing even more than a couple would be rather undesirable. Perhaps something with pay-per-view built in, g…

I've tried Blendle in the past: https://blendle.com/

As I recall it was a pay-per-article model (around 25 cents per article looks like) and it had a number of publications to choose from. Though I haven't used it lately, I like the idea.

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