[HN Gopher] Tell HN: Outline.com is offline, domain for sale
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       Tell HN: Outline.com is offline, domain for sale
        
       Outline.com was a website readability / paywall bypass site. It's
       been modestly popular for years among HN users, including myself.
       The domain now redirects to a seller site: https://outline.com
        
       Author : dredmorbius
       Score  : 19 points
       Date   : 2022-04-10 18:55 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
       | vmoore wrote:
       | I used it to point people to a reader-view of an article here on
       | HN, or where an article was paywalled. Sadly it needed javascript
       | to work, and sometimes it wouldn't allow certain articles to be
       | 'outlined', randomly and without reason.
        
       | dredmorbius wrote:
       | A 2020 LifeHacker post describes its basic use and mechanic:
       | https://lifehacker.com/use-this-site-to-read-and-annotate-ar...
       | 
       | It's apparently been down for a month or so. The domain is now
       | being listed for sale.
       | 
       | Internet Archive's final active capture was on 27 February 2022:
       | https://web.archive.org/web/20220227091525/https://outline.c...
       | 
       | Present result when attemtping domain: https://archive.ph/LYN9z
        
       | exolymph wrote:
       | Sad but unsurprising. I'm amazed that archive.is is still around,
       | to the extent that I wonder who _really_ funds it...
        
       | darepublic wrote:
       | I noticed the first day this was down because I was using their
       | API in a demo. Bad luck
        
       | cercatrova wrote:
       | Just use a browser extension version (works on Firefox despite
       | the name only mentioning Chrome):
       | https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean
       | 
       | I've never understood why these sites exist when the above
       | extension exists, as they're slower than the extension.
        
       | sodality2 wrote:
       | Alternatives:
       | 
       | https://12ft.io/
       | 
       | https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome (also for
       | firefox)
        
       | jer0me wrote:
       | This website is very similar: https://www.darkread.io/
        
       | zikohh wrote:
       | I recommend https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome
        
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