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Mozilla pulls Bypass Paywalls from Firefox add-ons store

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Re: Mozilla pulls Bypass Paywalls from Firefox add-ons store

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Post by soapdog »

boomboomsubban wrote: post #27

Here is what the creator actually said >One of the community reviewers removed it from the store claiming it violated the ToS, which is BS. The ToS never mentions the word paywall once. Please support me in appealing! https://wiki.mozilla.org/Add-ons#Getting_in_touch Which sounds more like a zealous community member than Mozilla taking a position.

yes!!! people don't realize that volunteers review the addons and that sometimes they make mistakes. They start acting as if Mozilla sent an internal memo to kill something when it is usually not the case.

Re: Mozilla pulls Bypass Paywalls from Firefox add-ons store

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Post by bitewhite »

If anyone is interested in installing this extension, I uploaded the .xpi file and instructions to install it in an issue on the git repo a few days ago [https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-firefox/issues...]

Hopefully the maintainer puts the .xpi file somewhere it can be accessed.

edit: someone has replied in the bottom of the git issue thread with a direct install link. use that instead

Re: Mozilla pulls Bypass Paywalls from Firefox add-ons store

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Post by avian »

> Release and Beta versions of Firefox do not allow unsigned extensions to be installed

I'm really disappointed at Mozilla regarding this. I recently wanted to do some Firefox customization for my own private use (not even an extension, I just wanted to have some visual indication of which Firefox windows belong to which profile). I was surprised to find out that even just a header .png in a theme can't be loaded locally but must be on-line and vetted by Mozilla. Utter craziness.

Re: Mozilla pulls Bypass Paywalls from Firefox add-ons store

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Post by einr »

eksemplar wrote: post #30
gpvos wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Publishers should take some basic control of the ads on their site, just like it used to be with newspapers and broadcast. Serve them from their own domain, restrict their format (no moving parts or sound, no Javascript at all), vet them for basic decency before publishing. My uBlock Origin setup wouldn't block that.

Good idea, but they are not tech companies, so they likely lack the ability to do so. I guess they could upscale in tech, but how would they pay for it when they can barely earn enough money to fulfill their primary function? I don’t think publishers have a problem. I think users do. I hate online news as much as everyone, but I still want deep, intelligent and critical journalism, so I subscribed to a paper which se…

Good idea, but they are not tech companies, so they likely lack the ability to do so.

They'd best gain the ability, then, or fade into irrelevance and die.

And honestly, we're talking about serving a few images from their own webserver. It's not rocket science.

Re: Mozilla pulls Bypass Paywalls from Firefox add-ons store

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Post by Vinnl »

avian wrote: post #33

> Release and Beta versions of Firefox do not allow unsigned extensions to be installed I'm really disappointed at Mozilla regarding this. I recently wanted to do some Firefox customization for my own private use (not even an extension, I just wanted to have some visual indication of which Firefox windows belong to which profile). I was surprised to find out that even just a header .png in a theme can't be loaded loc…

Why must it be online? Can't you package it with the theme? (I have no experience creating themes, but I can package images with an extension. I only have to upload it for Mozilla to sign them, but after that I can download the signed package and load that locally.)

Re: Mozilla pulls Bypass Paywalls from Firefox add-ons store

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Post by SllX »

ec109685 wrote: post #15
laktak wrote: post #2

I don't want to subscribe, I also don't want to see ads or be tracked. I wish there was a universal micropayments way of paying for what I read.

One way to make this happen is to vote with your eyeballs and attention. If you and other internet users that feel the same way don’t consume from sites without micropayments, they will be encouraged / forced to offer a new way of monetization.

Sometimes I wonder if people actually believe this, because it sounds more like nobody should read anything on the web that is monetized with a subscriber or ad-based business model.

Not even sure how newspapers would be able to figure out that all those readers they are not seeing is because they don’t take micropayments.

Re: Mozilla pulls Bypass Paywalls from Firefox add-ons store

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Post by myfonj »

avian wrote: post #33

> Release and Beta versions of Firefox do not allow unsigned extensions to be installed I'm really disappointed at Mozilla regarding this. I recently wanted to do some Firefox customization for my own private use (not even an extension, I just wanted to have some visual indication of which Firefox windows belong to which profile). I was surprised to find out that even just a header .png in a theme can't be loaded loc…

You can use `\chrome\userChrome.css` for that, perhaps. https://www.userchrome.org/

Re: Mozilla pulls Bypass Paywalls from Firefox add-ons store

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Post by giancarlostoro »

avian wrote: post #33

> Release and Beta versions of Firefox do not allow unsigned extensions to be installed I'm really disappointed at Mozilla regarding this. I recently wanted to do some Firefox customization for my own private use (not even an extension, I just wanted to have some visual indication of which Firefox windows belong to which profile). I was surprised to find out that even just a header .png in a theme can't be loaded loc…

Have you thought about just using Firefox containers? You can maintain containers that have completely separate login sessions with their own icons and colors. I use it to develop and test out 5 different user roles (or whatever) for different web applications, it's very useful.

If interested check this plugin out:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/multi-account...

Re: Mozilla pulls Bypass Paywalls from Firefox add-ons store

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Post by buboard »

dmortin wrote: post #12
laktak wrote: post #2

I don't want to subscribe, I also don't want to see ads or be tracked. I wish there was a universal micropayments way of paying for what I read.

If you mean automatic micropayments when reading articles then you'll still be tracked, because the payment provider has to track what you read to make the payments and even has to be able to provide a log of it in case there is a payment dispute, so they will store what urls you visit and when. Without a proper log payment disputes can't be resolved legally.

if there was something like anonymous payments (cryptocoin-based maybe?) then it would be possible without any tracking. In the few cases where you ask your penny cash back because something happened, most companies would just give it back without questions asked assuming they dont get tons of cashback requests from your IP.

Re: Mozilla pulls Bypass Paywalls from Firefox add-ons store

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Post by buboard »

Aissen wrote: post #9
laktak wrote: post #2

I don't want to subscribe, I also don't want to see ads or be tracked. I wish there was a universal micropayments way of paying for what I read.

Flattr set out do that, many years ago. They still exist. Brave is trying to address that. There's patreon, and many others. Have you tried them ?

i dont agree with the tracking that goes along with all of them. i shouldnt be recording my action to a bunch of unrelated companies just so i can give a few cents to a website.
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