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Bypass Paywalls Clean combines all soft paywall hacks into one neat package

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Re: Bypass Paywalls Clean combines all soft paywall hacks into one neat package

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Post by josephcsible »

gruez wrote: post #3
BillyTheMage wrote: post #2

Finally I'll be able to read posts on HN! I know it's "against the rules" or "uninteresting" or whatever to comment about this sort of thing on HN posts, but I'm getting real tired of 3/4 of the HN posts being paid bullshit I'm not allowed to read. Even the archived links people post in the comments are inaccessible because CloudFlare. I fail to see how paid articles adhere to the HN spirit of "interesting discussion…

>Even the archived links people post in the comments are inaccessible because CloudFlare. Actually it's not caused by cloudflare on two counts: cloudflare actually isn't a source of the captcha, the site author copied cloudflare's captcha page; and the site blocks cloudflare dns users because it doesn't send EDNS information.

> cloudflare actually isn't a source of the captcha, the site author copied cloudflare's captcha page

Why hasn't Cloudflare sued for trademark infringement?

Re: Bypass Paywalls Clean combines all soft paywall hacks into one neat package

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Post by eviks »

Emma_Goldman wrote: post #4

Does anyone know what if anything is substantively different between the original bypass paywalls[1] and bypass paywalls clean? The implication, obviously, is that the original is unclean. [1] https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome

The unclean part is referring to the presence of Google Analytics in the other extension

https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome/blob/c6...

Re: Bypass Paywalls Clean combines all soft paywall hacks into one neat package

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Post by shiroiuma »

BillyTheMage wrote: post #2

Finally I'll be able to read posts on HN! I know it's "against the rules" or "uninteresting" or whatever to comment about this sort of thing on HN posts, but I'm getting real tired of 3/4 of the HN posts being paid bullshit I'm not allowed to read. Even the archived links people post in the comments are inaccessible because CloudFlare. I fail to see how paid articles adhere to the HN spirit of "interesting discussion…

Many times, some helpful person posts a comment with a link to the same article, sans paywall, on archive.org.

Re: Bypass Paywalls Clean combines all soft paywall hacks into one neat package

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Post by markx2 »

shiroiuma wrote: post #13
BillyTheMage wrote: post #2

Finally I'll be able to read posts on HN! I know it's "against the rules" or "uninteresting" or whatever to comment about this sort of thing on HN posts, but I'm getting real tired of 3/4 of the HN posts being paid bullshit I'm not allowed to read. Even the archived links people post in the comments are inaccessible because CloudFlare. I fail to see how paid articles adhere to the HN spirit of "interesting discussion…

Many times, some helpful person posts a comment with a link to the same article, sans paywall, on archive.org.

And if they do not, use this bookmarklet

   javascript:void(open('https://archive.today/?run=1&url='+encodeURIComponent(document.location)))

Re: Bypass Paywalls Clean combines all soft paywall hacks into one neat package

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Post by INTPenis »

It says "Why do paywalls exist", of course to elicit payment for content, that's obvious. But what is less obvious is that they exist because we're centralizing a lot of information in a few places, and these sites require a lot of funding to operate.

In the age of dirt cheap cloud hosting we still depend on these huge sites for our content. I know it sounds like a massive simplification, and I don't claim to have the details on how to improve the situation, but I think we need more decentralized content creation.

Often when I hit a paywall i will simply Google the topic and sure enough there is an independent blog with the same story. That blog costs a fraction to run compared to the big news site I first landed on.

Let's spread the information out more.

Re: Bypass Paywalls Clean combines all soft paywall hacks into one neat package

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Post by bjord »

INTPenis wrote: post #16

It says "Why do paywalls exist", of course to elicit payment for content, that's obvious. But what is less obvious is that they exist because we're centralizing a lot of information in a few places, and these sites require a lot of funding to operate. In the age of dirt cheap cloud hosting we still depend on these huge sites for our content. I know it sounds like a massive simplification, and I don't claim to have th…

I honestly have a really hard time believing that the reason newspapers are so expensive to run these days is due to web hosting costs—I would imagine that most of their budget is spent on staffing (though I couldn't find a budget breakdown with a quick search, so I'm only guessing here).

As a side question: what are you reading about that independent blogs consistently offer the same quality of reporting as major news organizations?

Re: Bypass Paywalls Clean combines all soft paywall hacks into one neat package

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Post by bjord »

Emma_Goldman wrote: post #4

Does anyone know what if anything is substantively different between the original bypass paywalls[1] and bypass paywalls clean? The implication, obviously, is that the original is unclean. [1] https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome

Yeah, bypass paywalls clean both removes google analytics and seems to be updated more regularly (or it was when I switched a while ago, that could be different at this point).

Re: Bypass Paywalls Clean combines all soft paywall hacks into one neat package

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Post by _fat_santa »

I can say from personal experience that the extension used to work almost perfectly up until recently. Paywalled sites have started to catch on and are starting to place their articles on entirely different pages than the "preview" page so there's nothing to "bypass".

Re: Bypass Paywalls Clean combines all soft paywall hacks into one neat package

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Post by culi »

_fat_santa wrote: post #19

I can say from personal experience that the extension used to work almost perfectly up until recently. Paywalled sites have started to catch on and are starting to place their articles on entirely different pages than the "preview" page so there's nothing to "bypass".

I have only had incredible success with this extension, but you need to use Firefox. NYTimes articles always work seamlessly for example
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