Google blocked my Chrome extension so I created a website to host it

Let me just say -- and I'll get voted down for this -- that I think breaching paywalls is generally immoral. While I can imagine some moral reasons, I think most people are doing it even though they can pay. They are taking someone's work and using it without permission while refusing to pay.

Of course I may be biased because I make some of my living creating content behind paywalls. If free access and ad support were possible, I would choose them first. But they aren't. To me, this extension and the people who support it aren't any different from those who go into restaurants, order food, eat it and then leave without paying. And there will be those who trot out some extreme rhetoric about world hunger or something to justify their actions.

Google is blocking this extension because it's bad for the web as a whole. Don't empower people who destroy the information sources and turn the web into a fact desert. Support those who create knowledge and share it fairly and equally, albeit at a price.

Yes, the idea is host more extensions.

I could use some help with that

If you call the script main.user.js instead of main.tampermonkey.js tampermonkey and other userscript tools will pick up the script automatically instead of needing to paste the URL in. For example I put my userscripts at https://userscripts.kevincox.ca and just clicking any of them should offer to install if you have a userscript extension set up.

The issue with paywalls is the bait and switch - you push the whole content for SEO then force users to pay money.

Nobody cares if you want to sell the secrets of the universe for $5000/mo. We care about the bait and switch.

By setting up this bait and switch, you hurt your own paywall - if the search engine can get a full copy, so can I. Want these extensions to stop working? Stop the bait and switch.

You should be able to just load the script file in a userscript manager for firefox.

According to the original link the URL for the script is https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jorgefsilva/beatthatwall/m....