Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

And DO NOT DEFINITELY search Internet Archive for the first version of the article!

Hasn't worked on most sites in a long time. The obscuring is now done on the server side so the text never gets to the browser. Otherwise it used to be easy to just use the developer console or uBlock to just remove the components that concealed the text or prevent the browser refreshing to prevent the concealing.

Just because it bothered me

~~append before~~ prepend.

Firefox (or other browsers idk) with reading mode works 90% of the time.

• https://gitflic.ru/project/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean

• https://gitflic.ru/project/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean

• https://github.com/dessant/web-archives

Sadly 12ft.io has been taken offline

It’s not piracy in any way shape or form. If they sent the document to your computer then you have the document, reading that document and saving it elsewhere are not crimes and never can be, because the only way the Internet works is by transmitting the document to you where your computer must store it in some way.

My rule of thumb: Do not ever link to, or follow links to, or read the New York Times.

I don't do this. If I see a paywall, I don't visit the site again.

The Verge recently went with paywalls... I just deleted the bookmark. It was never a very good site anyway. They blasted an Android phone for doing something new, and then praised Apple for doing the exact same thing. I forget what. We were calling them iVerge for a while after that. (It was not recently.) Even as an Apple guy, I could not respect that. But the content has been entertaining, so I kept going back. I definitely will not pay them for their content though.

Disabling Javascript with ublock origin works most of time for me.

I love when professors send you a list of sites you should stay away from lest you'll get an illegitimate copy of the textbook. I love it even more when professors just don't care about the optics and straight up email the whole class a link to libgen. But there was one professor at my uni that outdid all of them. He just took it upon himself to write a textbook for every course on the entire math curriculum and sold them for like $3-5 depending on the size of the book.

Also, do NOT use the Firefox's Reader View.

I definitely wouldn’t use reader mode even after the paywall comes up. Don’t ever do that.

I never really understood why they make these paywalls so badly i mean, its great for us, fuck paywalls and so, but if i wanted to hide something from someone i would not send the text to them, and then quickly put a white piece of paper over it, hoping you wouldn't notice.

It's so strange to me

none of these worked for me on NYT, reader mode also did not work. seems sites have gotten around these tricks

How is it I never thought to use the print pdf or copy paste trick? Would have saved me a bunch of struggling prior to finding the paywall removers.

Gonna go out on a limb and say that 9 times out of 10 if this works, turning off JS will also work.

To which I'd then suggest just getting a browser extension like uMatrix to set up whitelisting for JS since it's a big ol' security hole anyways. Kill two birds with one stone.

The real heroes.

DO NOT open a file you don't want to use, of a given Office application, then open the file you want to use, and close the first window, because then you may accidentally be able to use Office without having a license!!! This is BAD, it should NOT be done!!