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I saw a post in here that had a bug and wouldn’t let me respond from my phone, but…

It was talking about paywalls for news sites. And this is literally the best one i know to get passed them. Just copy and paste.

  • sevenapples@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    I use the “Bypass Paywalls Clean” extension for Firefox. I’d post a link to it on mozilla’s add-on store, but I found out they had to take it down.

    You can still install it manually by downloading the extension file.

    You can also achieve the same thing with ublock filters, instructions here (in the “How to bypass paywalled articles using uBlock Origin” section)

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    1 year ago

    While this is great for the one-off article in publications you rarely read, also keep in mind that journalism is expensive and the reason a lot of it is getting so bad these days is that nobody pays for it. So if you have money to spare, please consider having at least one proper subscription in a quality newspaper somewhere to support the integrity of journalism. :)

    The Guardian is a good publication to consider as they don’t have a paywall to begin with. That’s a bold choice, and one I believe they should be rewarded for.

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      1 year ago

      Also keep in mind that paying for news often leaves the poorer community without information. While yes, i agree that journalists should be compensated, news organisations have become profit seeking businesses since the 70s, and not, as they should be, places of information gathering for everyone.

      A paywall prices poor people out of information. And things like this still help them.

      The guardian should be lauded for their model yes, but that is one company. They can’t write about everything.

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      1 year ago

      They also bended over to NYT. Cowards.

      (If you start a site like this, you surely can count on that somebody will be after you. Host it in different country, pay with Bitcoin, hide your registrar data etc so they cannot sue you. If you cannot guarantee it, why start it?)

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        1 year ago

        I think you misunderstand what 12ft.io’s business model is – they didn’t bend over for the NYT, the NYT bent over for 12ft.io by paying them to exclude them from the service. Literally the whole point is to extort money from publications to get on the whitelist.

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    1 year ago

    I’ve noticed that a lot of right-leaning “journalism” is free and left leaning journalism has a pay wall.

    I wonder if that has anything to do with the growth of the right.

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      1 year ago

      The us right is the local bourgeoisie and it’s propaganda is intended for everyone so everyone doesn’t climb over the fences and eat them alive. The us “left” is the national bourgeoisie and their propaganda is directed at their members and collaborators so as to maintain unity.