You will go straight to jail 😡😡😡

  • Lucy :3@feddit.org
    138·
    2 months ago

    12ft.io almost never works for me tbh.

    Also, appending before something is called prepending, similar to how a prefix after something is a suffix.

  • Kalkaline @leminal.space
    88·
    2 months ago

    Definitely don’t use uBlock Origin’s zapper mode to get rid of elements on the page that are blocking your view.

    • ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      29·
      2 months ago

      Truly awful. How will the news megacorp get its money? You wouldn’t steal the information required for you to be aware of world events? Right?

      • cRazi_man@lemm.ee
        6·
        2 months ago

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        • greencactus@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 months ago

          <arbitration clause: if you sign up, you cannot make any claims against cRazi_man. in case we fucked up, I guess sucks for you, byeeeee>

      • lud@lemm.ee
        21·
        2 months ago

        If you just want to be aware, you could often read the headlines for free or follow news sites like Reuters, AFP, or AP.

        They are primarily wire news companies and are a great way to get reliable, truthful and often free news. If you want to read longer articles, you should pay if you want to have articles to read in the future.

  • Metostopholes@midwest.socialEnglish
    45·
    2 months ago

    Back during prohibition in the US, there was a product called Vine-Glo that was a brick of grape concentrate. It came with a warning: “After dissolving the brick in a gallon of water, do not place the liquid in a jug away in the cupboard for twenty days, because then it would turn into wine.”

  • sudoer777@lemmy.ml
    28·
    2 months ago

    Doesn’t NYT cut off most of the article now? I used to just be able to disable JS but that didn’t work anymore last I checked.

    • xenoclast@lemmy.world
      11·
      2 months ago

      Yeah the article stub doesn’t link to the article. It links to a login flow with the article id. If you go directly to the article you get redirected if you don’t have a session.

      It’s incredibly easy to make an impossible to get around paywall. Porn has done it since the Internet existed.

      In this very particular situation I’m glad most companies are lazy and stupid.

      I don’t particularly care if a company does pay only content. I think its legitimately ok. I hate companies that don’t make you pay enough for the service to cover their costs thus leading to complete enshitifaction.

      • ChuckEffingNorris@lemmy.ml
        7·
        2 months ago

        I thought the issue was they wanted search engines to be able to see the content, but not non paying viewers? Hence slightly shitty paywalls.

      • humorlessrepost@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        2 months ago

        It’s incredibly easy to make an impossible to get around paywall.

        Sure, but the easily-bypassed js method makes sure it’s still crawlable by search engines, which is a trade well worth making where I work. Doesn’t matter as much for porn sites since the title and description aren’t the content most people are there for, so you can expose them on the paywall page.

        • xenoclast@lemmy.world
          2·
          2 months ago

          Very true. I don’t disagree at all. I think once google finally becomes totally useless. It won’t matter.

          I mean Google is already just Yellow Pages AdWords edition with AI content

        • sudoer777@lemmy.ml
          1·
          2 months ago

          Maybe they have a way to unblock major search engine crawlers but block it for everyone else now? I know Cloudflare was doing something similar for some bot protection mechanism, and this seems like something news outlets would want to do also.

    • Polysics@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 months ago

      Brave browser has a filter to bypass paywalls. Works on desktop and mobile versions. Definitely works on NYT as I just read something there today. And of course has built in adblock. You can also add additional filters and adblock lists.

      Bonus: print to PDF in Brave to share an article with someone else. It retains all the graphics relevant to the article and cuts all the junk and ads out too.

  • flashgnash@lemm.ee
    26·
    2 months ago

    I just hope nobody clicks the reader view button in the top right, it would be just terrible if they got an ad free, paywall free version of the site

    • QuietCupcake [any, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      9·
      2 months ago

      Yeah, unfortunately 12ft.io didn’t keep up with the paywall arms race. It’s too bad because it was one of those things that a lot of people knew about, many of whom may now just give up when it doesn’t work even though there are other options out there.

      As one example, there’s now also the 13ft ladder: https://github.com/wasi-master/13ft It’s like 12ft but self hosted. Sounds really good but I can’t vouch for it yet.

      I mostly would just archive a paywallrd page with archive.is (aka archive.today, archive.ph, etc.) and that worked great and also helped take traffic away from asshole sites that paywall content. Unfortunately, archive started requiring a cloud flare captcha when archiving a page. This is a deal breaker for me since captcha totally deanonymizes you and is used for tracking purposes and even to train AI. So it defeats a good chunk of the purpose of using an archive site.

      Still, there’s a good chance that someone else already archived the page you want to see, so putting the url in archive.is search can be enough to bypass the paywall.

  • abbenm@lemmy.ml
    18·
    2 months ago

    Wow, I feel like the most upvoted solutions here don’t work, and meanwhile some obvious and widely known alternatives are being completely overlooked.

    ❌ Inspect Element - many modern sites don’t even include the full article in the paywalled html, so this wouldn’t work. Also sitting there and mousing over elements and deleting them one by one, is tedious, it’s easy to accidentally delete an element that encloses the content you intended to keep, or to drive yourself crazy trying to figure out how elements are nested.

    ❌ Ublock Zapper - a similar to the above, won’t work on stub articles, and just janky because you’re manually zapping things

    ❌ Disabled JavaScript - Similar to the above, same problem because many articles are stubs anyway. And the HTML layers that block your view don’t have to be done with JavaScript.

    ❌ Rapid copy and paste of the article to notepad or rapidly printing the screen - similar problem to the above, lots of places just post the stub of an article, and besides nobody should live their life this way rapidly trying to print screen or copy everything. If you’re trying to do a quick copy you’re going to grab all kinds of gobbledygunk from the page and probably have to manually filter it out.

    ❌ Reader Mode - Your browsers reader mode will be hit and miss because, again, many sites post stub articles, and it’s possible the pay wall stuff will just get formatted into the reader mode along with an incomplete article.

    ✅ Archive.is - works!

    ✅ Pocket and Instapaper - amazingly, nobody has mentioned these even though they’re probably the longest running (dating back to 2007-2008), possibly most widely known, and most consistent solutions that still work to this day. They keep their own local caches of articles, so it’s not depending on the full content being visible on the page.

    ✅ Other dedicated extensions - Dedicated browser extensions seem to work, but be careful what you’re signing yourself up for.

    🤷‍♀️ Brave - It works, but, it’s a Chromium supported browser, so ultimately Google controls the destiny and can drive Chromium to incorporate fundamental frameworks supporting DRM and pushing their preferred web standards.

  • Tux@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    2 months ago

    Thank you so much! I already did it! (Smash Ctrl+P as fast as possible)