[HN Gopher] Hate paywalls? 12ft.io is the answer
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Hate paywalls? 12ft.io is the answer
Author : nottrobin
Score : 27 points
Date : 2022-06-06 22:02 UTC (58 minutes ago)
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| purplejacket wrote:
| https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2Flive...
|
| Ooops.
| ushakov wrote:
| try this
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| https://archive.ph/ybCe9
| [deleted]
| KoftaBob wrote:
| More reliable method I've found is creating a bookmarklet with
| this as the url: javascript:window.location.hre
| f="https://archive.is/newest/"+location.href
|
| Click the bookmark when you're on a paywalled article, and
| it'll redirect to the latest archived version of it/
| hunterb123 wrote:
| https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https://www.economist.com/science-an...
|
| That example is linked from their own homepage. Seems a 14ft
| ladder is needed?
|
| Pro tip, just access the google web cache directly:
|
| https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:...
| nkozyra wrote:
| This works most of the time but I find archive.is gives me an
| almost perfect 100% paywall evasion.
|
| Admittedly the idea of having the full url included is
| appealing.
| hunterb123 wrote:
| I love archive.is but I generally use it to view
| edited/deleted articles, save controversial articles, etc.
|
| I use google cache for quick viewings due to no captcha, it's
| simple to prefix the url, and it has a text only mode.
| more_corn wrote:
| No, the answer is that we as a community ignore content behind
| paywalls and they will fade from relevance.
| annoyingnoob wrote:
| Is the paywall gone?
|
| No!
| ozaark wrote:
| When this was first posted on HN it seemed to work without issue
| - however since then I have attempted to use it on numerous
| occasions and get a server error, or just a blank page with the
| window "is the paywall gone? Y/n".
| Cyclical wrote:
| Every time I've ever tried 12ft, I've gotten a 503 error.
| Multiple devices tested, always the same thing.
| hwbehrens wrote:
| I have tried this site multiple times and never been successful.
| I find archive.ph to be much more reliable.
| loloquwowndueo wrote:
| How long before this starts being monetized? "Surely you can see
| that paying for a single monthly subscription beats paying many?"
| nkozyra wrote:
| Given it doesn't seem to work all that well, I wouldn't be
| worried.
|
| There have been many attempts to federate paywalls but the
| publishers will never play ball.
| lapser wrote:
| I've been getting less and less success with 12ft.io. I mostly
| use it on my phone. On my computer I use Bypass Paywall Clean[0]
| (chrome/firefox addon) which uses different tricks to access the
| full article.
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| [0] https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean
| WithinReason wrote:
| this is the way
| ushakov wrote:
| 12ft has become useless when big publishers started demanding the
| content to be taken down
|
| just use archive.is which will take care of the paywalls
| CamperBob2 wrote:
| If the F9 key in Firefox doesn't make the paywall go away, I
| generally don't bother looking further.
|
| It's pretty rare that some combination of mashing F9 and F5
| doesn't bring up a nice, readable copy of the article.
| [deleted]
| KoftaBob wrote:
| More reliable method I've found is creating a bookmarklet with
| this as the url: javascript:window.location.href=
| "https://archive.is/newest/"+location.href
|
| Click the bookmark when you're on a paywalled article, and it'll
| redirect to the latest archived version of it/
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