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Jan. 15th, 2024
Paywall bypass
Jan. 15th, 2024 04:25 pmFor people who read my links and sometimes hit a paywall, there are multiple methods of bypassing them.
Sometimes you can use "reader mode" (it's called that in Firefox, very handy, strips out everything but the text. I believe Chrome has something similar.), and then refresh the page.
If that doesn't work then open https://archive.ph/ and paste in the URL you want to see the archived version of.
For pages where that doesn't work, sometimes https://12ft.io/ works.
Edit: For FT articles, search for the headline on Google then follow the link. The paywall is deactivated for page views driven from Google. (Thanks Mike!)
If none of those work then let me know and I'll see if I can find an alternative.
(I pay for a variety of news sources. If you find one of them useful more than a couple of times per week then I recommend you do too.)
Sometimes you can use "reader mode" (it's called that in Firefox, very handy, strips out everything but the text. I believe Chrome has something similar.), and then refresh the page.
If that doesn't work then open https://archive.ph/ and paste in the URL you want to see the archived version of.
For pages where that doesn't work, sometimes https://12ft.io/ works.
Edit: For FT articles, search for the headline on Google then follow the link. The paywall is deactivated for page views driven from Google. (Thanks Mike!)
If none of those work then let me know and I'll see if I can find an alternative.
(I pay for a variety of news sources. If you find one of them useful more than a couple of times per week then I recommend you do too.)