12ft.io (paywall article unlocker site) has been banned by Vercel
12ft.io (paywall article unlocker site) has been banned by Vercel
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Bypass Paywalls extension for Firefox.
Works better and for more sites in my experience.-
How do I install it on Firefox android, though?
My phone won't open xpi files and the only solutions I've been able to find is either create a html file in the same folder, which I don't know how to do on android, or download and install an extension which is ALSO only available as an xpi 🤦
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Import custom filter
Bypass Paywalls Clean
I think it's this one
https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-clean-filters
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Try custom collections feature:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-use-collections-addonsmozillaorg
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You could instead use the Web Archives extension. Works for most common paywalls.
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Use Kiwi browser instead.
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It has seemed to work on less and less sites for me recently, to the point that I do not visited it as often as I used to.
But that tweet does sound like pretty bad news...
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It never ever seemed to work for me.
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by the time it got popular, it was already not working with multiple big sources.
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The only time I ever used it, they told me they chose not to support that site
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https://archive.md/ gets around way more paywalls. Highly recommend it.
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disabling js does more
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12ft.io was performative useless garbage anyway, if any site can just ask your paywalling bypass site to not bypass their paywall, what is the point of your site
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Exactly. As soon as they bent over to NYT, I stopped using them.
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It stopped working on any of the sites I ever bothered to use it on anyway- most of them wisened up to the crawler bypass and simply made a 2 sentence tagline visible to crawlers that hit the SEO terms, with everything else hidden. Soooo nothing of value lost and Capital comes to claim its pie once again.
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Some extra context / clarification from the thread re Vercel: they did warn him starting two weeks ago. They’ve stated he has a line open with customer support to get his other projects restored but that hasn’t happened yet.
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I think that Vercel wants to drop them as a customer entirely. Vercel could've suspended the services related to 12ft.io, but Vercel chose to nuke their account from orbit. I'm unsure why Vercel suspended their domains tho. That's just asking for trouble with ICANN.
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Technically, if one were to disable the JS used for said paywall on a site, they would never see it again. I haven't personally done this but has anyone tried?
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Most sites load no content at all if JS is disabled.
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If the website developer is worth their salt, the article contents won't be delivered from the web server until the reader has been authorized. So it doesn't matter how much JS code you disable.
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PAY THE WRITERS FOR THEIR JOB. DON'T BE A CHEAP PIRATE.
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It's just a glorified web scraper, I didn't know it was this popular. You could build a barebones scraper and output in less than 10 lines with curl in PHP. And 12ftio used to inject its own code into the output, it's funny how people were Ozzy with that.
Everyone who ever does web scraping knew serving it on his own public domain was going to be a problem.
Boy, people are lazy.
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Today I learned because I can't code, I'm useless and lazy.
The fucking people you come across on the internet...smh
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Sure, because everybody who owns a computer, tablet, or smartphone is a web dev. Obviously.
/s
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Get out and touch grass mate.
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Please paste the 10 lines here
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… we’re still waiting
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lmao what an absolutely moronic take.
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That’s not even what 12ft.io was. It wasn’t scraping anything, it was just a redirect to the google web cache. Importantly, it was also accessible, something that anyone could use without installing anything.
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