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https://12ft.io is another good one but yes agreed, you should cough up for the subscription when possible
I've tried that on like 3 or 4 different sites and it didn't work for a single one
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But the number of AMP versions is dwindling as Google is no longer forcing it.
Yep. And the browser vendor can make changes to DevTools, archive.ph is already privacy-unfriendly and blocked in some countries, it could disappear, 12ft.io could disappear, and so on. The fact that seems least likely to change is that most "paywalls" rely on Javascript, CSS or some other "feature" of so-called "modern" web browsers. I have lost count of how many times an HN comment alleges "paywalled" in a thread a…
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1276712Another option no one has menitoned is AMP. Many sites that try to use "paywalls" have AMP URLs which point to pages that have all the full text of the article in tags. These AMP sites generally look great in a text-only browser that does not run Javascript. Popular example is WSJ. In the URL, add /amp before /article/. Paywalls are insidious because they target non-subscribers. Why let non-subscribers view articles.…
"Proposals like the PACT Act would state that if a provider is aware of an unlawful post, it will lose immunity for a lawsuit premised on that specific post.334"
"The CASE-IT Act would have taken a similar approach, providing that service providers and users lose Section 230(c)(1) immunity for a year if they engage in certain activities, including permitting harmful content to be distributed to minors, if the harmful content is made readily accessible to minors by the failure of such provider or user to implement a system designed to effectively screen users who are minors from accessing such content.337"
"In the same vein, other bills would have caused providers to lose Section 230 immunity if they use algorithms to distribute content to users or display behavioral advertising.338"
Many 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…
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> but I just don't find it viable to pay all the websites where I read just a single article. This. In the print days, you'd buy a newspaper; you'd have access to all the articles in that edition. I used to read a daily paper. In the modern world, these papers expect you to pay for a newspaper just to read a single article. I dunno, perhaps they could form a "Paywall Consortium", so that I could pay a one-day fee to…
> But if you want me to buy the whole paper to read a single article, well, ain't gonna happen. This was common for non-subscribers in the print days. Newspapers would print a number of enticing headlines and images on the front page above the fold, and display those folded newspapers for sale at dispensers, newsstands, and stores. Many people who bought a one-off paper would buy for a single article that interested…
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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…
My secret weapon for cutting through the call-to-cancel CSR script with a machete is the following: "May I ask why you want to cancel your account today?" "No, you may not." For some insane reason they ALL phrase the question this way, enabling this little grammatical gem of a response. Enjoy.
"... calls may be recorded for training purposes."
"Thanks for giving me permission, I am recording this call ..."
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I've tried that on like 3 or 4 different sites and it didn't work for a single one
I noticed too this site is having issues lately. It usually works for me. Either that, or sites have figured out its trick to bypass.
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Why would this work? I know FQDNs sometimes require specifying a period at the end, and browsers seem to accept it as well, but I wonder why this would affect some frameworks' displayed content. Normally a site would rely on a cookie to maintain logged-in status, and that shouldn't be affected by the request URL.
Maybe some backend concession to allow viewing the article on hostnames/uris that are meant for internal use, partner sharing sites, etc? Like an if/then that checks the origin hostname?
Many 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.
https://12ft.io is another good one but yes agreed, you should cough up for the subscription when possible
Many 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.
This website almost succeed every time I run out of my tricks, like:
1) ESC to interrupt the page load 2) quickly hit "view mode" before the wall appears 3) add a "." behind the .com, so like .com./ 4) visit in incognito window when the tokens run out (e.g. Medium) 5) Check Google cache of this page, (you can quickly add cache: URL to visit the cache page) 6) Check archive.org cache of some lost pages 7) maybe some extensions but I seldom use them nowadays 8) before, there are some cool sites like, sorry I forgot the names, all stopped working, those websites can remove paypall
9) console tricks though I dunno.