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Re: Hate paywalls? 12ft.io is the answer

#11

Post by ushakov » Mon, Jun 06, 2022, 10:39 PM UTC

12ft has become useless when big publishers started demanding the content to be taken down

just use archive.is which will take care of the paywalls

Re: Hate paywalls? 12ft.io is the answer

#12

Post by ushakov » Mon, Jun 06, 2022, 10:42 PM UTC

purplejacket wrote: post #2

https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2Flive... Ooops.

try this

https://archive.ph/ybCe9

Re: Hate paywalls? 12ft.io is the answer

#13

Post by CamperBob2 » Mon, Jun 06, 2022, 10:42 PM UTC

If the F9 key in Firefox doesn't make the paywall go away, I generally don't bother looking further.

It's pretty rare that some combination of mashing F9 and F5 doesn't bring up a nice, readable copy of the article.

Re: Hate paywalls? 12ft.io is the answer

#14

Post by hunterb123 » Mon, Jun 06, 2022, 10:42 PM UTC

nkozyra wrote: post #8

hunterb123 wrote: post #3

https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https://www.economist.com/science-an... That example is linked from their own homepage. Seems a 14ft ladder is needed? Pro tip, just access the google web cache directly: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:...

This works most of the time but I find archive.is gives me an almost perfect 100% paywall evasion. Admittedly the idea of having the full url included is appealing.

I love archive.is but I generally use it to view edited/deleted articles, save controversial articles, etc.

I use google cache for quick viewings due to no captcha, it's simple to prefix the url, and it has a text only mode.

Re: Hate paywalls? 12ft.io is the answer

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jun 06, 2022, 10:46 PM UTC

purplejacket wrote: post #2

https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2Flive... Ooops.

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Re: Hate paywalls? 12ft.io is the answer

#16

Post by KoftaBob » Mon, Jun 06, 2022, 10:51 PM UTC

More reliable method I've found is creating a bookmarklet with this as the url:

  javascript:window.location.href="https://archive.is/newest/"+location.href

Click the bookmark when you're on a paywalled article, and it'll redirect to the latest archived version of it/

Re: Hate paywalls? 12ft.io is the answer

#17

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jun 06, 2022, 10:51 PM UTC

CamperBob2 wrote: post #13

If the F9 key in Firefox doesn't make the paywall go away, I generally don't bother looking further. It's pretty rare that some combination of mashing F9 and F5 doesn't bring up a nice, readable copy of the article.

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Re: Hate paywalls? 12ft.io is the answer

#18

Post by KoftaBob » Mon, Jun 06, 2022, 10:52 PM UTC

purplejacket wrote: post #2

https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2Flive... Ooops.

More reliable method I've found is creating a bookmarklet with this as the url:

  javascript:window.location.href="https://archive.is/newest/"+location.href

Click the bookmark when you're on a paywalled article, and it'll redirect to the latest archived version of it/

Re: Hate paywalls? 12ft.io is the answer

#19

Post by WithinReason » Mon, Jun 06, 2022, 10:55 PM UTC

lapser wrote: post #9

I've been getting less and less success with 12ft.io. I mostly use it on my phone. On my computer I use Bypass Paywall Clean[0] (chrome/firefox addon) which uses different tricks to access the full article. [0] https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean

this is the way

Re: Hate paywalls? 12ft.io is the answer

#20

Post by more_corn » Mon, Jun 06, 2022, 10:58 PM UTC

No, the answer is that we as a community ignore content behind paywalls and they will fade from relevance.