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Re: Tell HN: Bypass Paywalls repository is gone

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Phone number verification also fails for Google Voice.

Loads of services have that issue, not just GitLab. Some are even blocking Twilio numbers.

Twilio is registered on the PSTN as an IPES, if your making the effort to block non-wireless OCNs, then your gonna block Twilio.

Re: Tell HN: Bypass Paywalls repository is gone

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What do you mean with this?

https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome/blob/c6...

Okay, for some reason they took down that one but the original (but not maintained) fork is gone. Fascinating...

Re: Tell HN: Bypass Paywalls repository is gone

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There's also a version still in the Firefox catalog (the official one has been banned from there too): --link removed, it was a fake, the one I referred to is gone too :( -- This is a help in particular for mobile firefox because they refuse to let us sideload addons.

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 :(

Re: Tell HN: Bypass Paywalls repository is gone

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Loads of services have that issue, not just GitLab. Some are even blocking Twilio numbers.

Twilio is registered on the PSTN as an IPES, if your making the effort to block non-wireless OCNs, then your gonna block Twilio.

You are*

https://youryoure.com/

Re: Tell HN: Bypass Paywalls repository is gone

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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

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.

Re: Tell HN: Bypass Paywalls repository is gone

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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.

Re: Tell HN: Bypass Paywalls repository is gone

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Apparently 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

Seeding for Streishand ™

Re: Tell HN: Bypass Paywalls repository is gone

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The clean one is not “clean” in that it still does all kinds of tracking

What do you mean with this?

They have a point, I guess. It pings home in bpc_count_daily_users.js.

https://archive.softwareheritage.org/browse/content/sha1_git...

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