The simplest method is just to refresh the page and hit Esc as quickly as you can to cancel the page load and prevent further scripts from running, that works for me 80% of the time. Sites need to be indexed by google so any paywall is often client side js.
Getting around website paywalls with devtools alone
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#92or... just remove the `overflow: hidden` that's most likely placed on the ` ` or some high level ` `.
my experience is that it stopped working a few years ago. Eg: NYT or FT.
The content is nowhere to be fund on the raw html itself.
No idea how it works but it looks like actual content is loaded separately once the gates are open?
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#93Many sites don't contains the full content even if you do that. I'm not sure of how it works (does it subscribed to them all?) but https://archive.ph/ is a good way to see the content in those cases. But really, if you are regularly reading content on a site you should subscribe to support the journalists employed there.
I subscribe to a major newspaper. But I'm not going to subscribe to all major newspapers. The individual subscription model doesn't really fit a world where you can go to one site, and click links to articles from lots of different publications. If they had a common subscription, where you pay one reasonable fee and they divide it up according to whose articles you read, I'd subscribe to that. Since they don't, I sub…
This is also quickly happening with social media now.
Twitter $8, FB $12 (web) / $15 ios)
You're asking for the cable tv model where they aggregate premium channels, imho that doesn't work either... you end up paying for a lot of stuff that you're not interested in.
Re: Getting around website paywalls with devtools alone
#94What I find annoying about paywalled sites is that they provide the full content to Google. And Google is OK with indexing the full content, even though it is not available on the internet, and even though they explicitly forbid the practice of showing different content to a search engine from what is available publicly. Paywalled sites are just fine, but they are not part of the open Internet, and should not pretend…
That’s a Google problem not a publisher problem. Content should be findable and available to people who want to pay for it.
Google could easily add an option to filter out paywalled content but that would reduce clicks.
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#95If you're unable to scroll the page, it generally means there is a "position: fixed" css rule on the body or a wrapper element. Turn off that css rule and you can scroll through the article normally.
Publishers are slowly wising up, though. Most don't load the full article for unpaid viewers anymore.
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#96This extension removes paywalls on many news sites (maintained, 33k stars) https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome
Re: Getting around website paywalls with devtools alone
#97Many sites don't contains the full content even if you do that. I'm not sure of how it works (does it subscribed to them all?) but https://archive.ph/ is a good way to see the content in those cases. But really, if you are regularly reading content on a site you should subscribe to support the journalists employed there.
I’d be more willing to subscribe if publications didn’t pull the dark pattern of making signing up fast and easy, but then requiring a call to a rep to cancel. I used to subscribe to the nytimes but a few years ago I needed a break from news. My plan was to come back in 6-12 months, but they made me wait on the phone for 25 mins for something that should have taken a couple of minutes on their site. I cancelled and n…
Move to the Netherlands. The medium used to sign up, should be available to cancel. Cancellation can't be harder than signing up, and (barring a few exceptions), you can't have an autorenew period of longer than a month, after an initial year.
These may actually be EU rules BTW, haven't checked.
Re: Getting around website paywalls with devtools alone
#98Generally just disabling JavaScript for the site works perfectly.
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#99Another devtools trick I've used is network throttling to allow me to copy out an article's content before JS loads.
Re: Getting around website paywalls with devtools alone
#100Many sites don't contains the full content even if you do that. I'm not sure of how it works (does it subscribed to them all?) but https://archive.ph/ is a good way to see the content in those cases. But really, if you are regularly reading content on a site you should subscribe to support the journalists employed there.
I’d be more willing to subscribe if publications didn’t pull the dark pattern of making signing up fast and easy, but then requiring a call to a rep to cancel. I used to subscribe to the nytimes but a few years ago I needed a break from news. My plan was to come back in 6-12 months, but they made me wait on the phone for 25 mins for something that should have taken a couple of minutes on their site. I cancelled and n…
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