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Tell HN: Bypass Paywalls repository is gone
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#13It's hard to know how up to date this is but: https://github.com/eugenesvk/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean (It does seem to be more up-to-date than other mirrors I've found) Edit: It's about 300 commits old. https://web.archive.org/web/20240410093750/https://gitlab.co...
These appears to be the most recent forks for the archivers. ;)
https://gitlab.com/Fernos/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean
latest: https://gitlab.com/expat.russia/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clea...
Re: Tell HN: Bypass Paywalls repository is gone
#14It's hard to know how up to date this is but: https://github.com/eugenesvk/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean (It does seem to be more up-to-date than other mirrors I've found) Edit: It's about 300 commits old. https://web.archive.org/web/20240410093750/https://gitlab.co...
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#15So... any mirror out there?
Re: Tell HN: Bypass Paywalls repository is gone
#16It's hard to know how up to date this is but: https://github.com/eugenesvk/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean (It does seem to be more up-to-date than other mirrors I've found) Edit: It's about 300 commits old. https://web.archive.org/web/20240410093750/https://gitlab.co...
These appears to be the most recent forks for the archivers. ;) https://gitlab.com/Fernos/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean latest: https://gitlab.com/expat.russia/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clea... https://gitlab.com/cjkpfit/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean
It's good that there are forks, but I was under the impression that the head person running the project was the one keeping all the paywall bypasses up to date. Even if these forks work, if no one is actively keeping track of each site that is being bypassed as it breaks or changes, they won't be working for long.
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#17Do bypasses like this, which I assume just do things like deleting "uncloseable" client-side modals and spoofing UA/referrer headers, count as copy-protection circumvention technology under the DMCA?
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#18Apparently this page works! You can download latest version from here:
https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bpc-uploads/
EDIT: magnet link with all btc-uploads content magnet:?xt=urn:btih:7839e845f7965bed1035dc5d4635811d1ede73d2&dn=magnolia1234-bypass-paywalls-uploads-master
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
These appears to be the most recent forks for the archivers. ;) https://gitlab.com/Fernos/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean latest: https://gitlab.com/expat.russia/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clea... https://gitlab.com/cjkpfit/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean
It's good that there are forks, but I was under the impression that the head person running the project was the one keeping all the paywall bypasses up to date. Even if these forks work, if no one is actively keeping track of each site that is being bypassed as it breaks or changes, they won't be working for long.
I am looking into uploading it on archive.org as well. Fingers crossed someone takes the torch. Bless open source.
Looks like the official store one was last updated on March 1, so the forked links from mid March are only slightly ahead.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bypass-paywal...
Hopefully the original user migrates to a new platform, but if this store version gets removed I think we can all assume they got struck with a lawsuit threat.
edit - done: https://archive.org/details/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean-ma...