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This extension works remarkably well. But it requires frequent updates to stay working as sites change. I sure hope there's some statement on what's up soon.
Is there an alternate "store" for open source chrome extensions?
Something akin to F-droid that keeps them up to date?
Edit: or, maybe it does. I see WSJ.com in the config, with a referrer as drugereport and user agent as Google not to get around it.
Thanks to the Streisand Effect, I've installed this. Seems to work pretty well on the few sites I've tried. Hopefully the maintainer can find a new home and let people know on Twitter. https://twitter.com/Magnolia1234B
Another extension that deserves some fame is "Behind the overlay". it allows you to kill any unskipable full page overlay informing you about the benefits of a subscription and the excellent quality of the article beneath it. Coupled with the Archive.ph button they make up my holy trinity of paywall bypass.
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Pretty sure that's the version that kept calling Google Analytics, and why we got a clean fork "Bypass Paywalls Clean". EDIT: Actually, never mind, this isn't even that, this is a fake according to the reviews.
Oh yes the one I mean is Bypass Paywalls Clean (D). But this also seems to have been kicked out of the Mozilla store. It was just a resubmit by someone else after the original got kicked out when a French newspaper complained. We really need sideloading capability in mobile firefox :(
The easiest way to bypass paywalls is to just disable JavaScript for the site. It works pretty much everywhere I've tried it except for the WSJ, which I suspect this extension doesn't work for either. Edit: or, maybe it does. I see WSJ.com in the config, with a referrer as drugereport and user agent as Google not to get around it.
Can this plugin work on it? I doubt.
Do 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?
https://www.nacdl.org/Landing/ComputerFraudandAbuseAct#:~:te....
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Wow, Gitlab has gotten ridiculous. They're making me sign up for an account, verify email, go through two captchas, and fill out a survey before they'll let me view the repository. . . . and now that I've done all that the repository is 404ing.
They really had an opportunity to capture significant market share and they ruined it. Their interface also doesn’t work without javascript. What a shame.
(A long time ago, I clearly remember it did. There's nothing about browsing files or participating in the effective forum that's called "Issues" which fundamentally requires JS.)