Paywall bypass

[andrewducker]

For 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.)

Comments

[calimac]

How about that; the reader mode icon has been appearing on my Firefox all along and I never knew what it was or indeed noticed it.

What I'd been doing, for sites which show you the article for a few seconds before blocking it, was hitting Ctrl-A Ctrl-C during that interval, which highlights the whole article and copies it. Then I could paste it at my leisure into Notebook or whatever and read it there.

[andrewducker]

I'm glad you had something that worked for you!