Tell HN: Bypass Paywalls repository is gone

Post by ta8645 » Fri, Apr 12, 2024, 9:02 PM UTC

Post by cormorant » Fri, Apr 12, 2024, 9:14 PM UTC

ZunarJ5 wrote: post #20

pogue wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 assu…

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Apr 12, 2024, 9:16 PM UTC

garciansmith wrote: post #23

ta8645 wrote: post #22

Edit: * Has been taken offline now. * They didn't purge the xpi download repository, so you can still download the latest XPI package signed by Mozilla: https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bpc-uploads/-/raw/master/byp... There are other xpi packages available in the same repo: https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bpc-uploads/

I get 404s now following those links.

Post by ta8645 » Fri, Apr 12, 2024, 9:23 PM UTC

Post by ZunarJ5 » Fri, Apr 12, 2024, 9:31 PM UTC

cormorant wrote: post #21

Archived copy that's newer than others mentioned: https://archive.softwareheritage.org/browse/origin/directory... Tip revision: 1c8f71997c1fb3b3f60957514ec2bce1591a1bfc authored by magnolia1234 on 01 April 2024, 07:35:12 UTC also the Firefox-specific repo: https://archive.softwareheritage.org/browse/origin/directory... also the bpc-uploads (XPI, CRX): https://archive.softwareheritage.org/browse/origin/directory...