Getting around website paywalls with devtools alone
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Re: Getting around website paywalls with devtools alone
#2A code free way to view a site with a paywall and navigate or scroll your way through the content.
Re: Getting around website paywalls with devtools alone
#3Good tip. Sites turning off scroll is one of my pet annoyances.
Re: Getting around website paywalls with devtools alone
#4Maybe it just a transparent div that blocked all the pointer events?
Re: Getting around website paywalls with devtools alone
#5Usually on these sites, there'll be an `overflow: hidden` element that's holding all the content. If you can find and disable that CSS line, it'll work as normal. Or just save it to the Wayback Machine and read it through that.
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#6or... just remove the `overflow: hidden` that's most likely placed on the `` or some high level ``.
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#7I just use Firefox's reader view. Does the same with just a click. If it doesn't work, just refresh in reader view and it should load properly.
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#8In the case of Washington Post it just has a "position: fixed" style on the element. That's usually the case with most of these scroll locking sites, one of the root parent elements will have some CSS style that you can click off.
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#9Some sites now are literally not loading the actual paywalled content until after you sign in, so not matter what you do you aren't going to be able to access it unless someone with a paid subscription shares that content and it is then uploaded to a third party paywall bypasser.
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#10Sometimes, however, you don't even get a full article text when the paywalled site loads. In those cases, no amount of Scroll Into View will help.
For those cases try something like Google Cache or Wayback Machine! It still won't always work, but it's nevertheless got a pretty good success rate.