Don's Home Computing Browsers Paywalls |
Here are some notes from David McRitchie in Sept 2021.
See my notes from 2020 below
Paywall circumvention (MIT Tech Review, NYTimes, Washington Post among others) So far the easiest to use method is as follows, adblockers just don't do it anymore. When this fails go back to deleting site cookies.
Turn off Javascript for the site: (lose images on Windows for WaPo)
Just sent this to a few programmers to test, and find a troublesome paywall site. When I find the 50 or more newspapers that use the same or similar I'll include the link. But for now unless you live in California you are not likely to run past the paywall limit after being directed from Google results. I'll include Mac directions if the same works and you give instructions. I don't have the newer Firefox versions on this computer and Microsoft update did in the two smaller laptops. Actually I do have Firefox on Android, and just checked don't see anything similar in settings not even on the medallion left of the url in the address bar, guess they figure private browsing is the answer (I don't), Temporary containers extension. The other browsers are Chromium browsers so should be same as Chrome.
Paywall Extension- Chrome Web Store
Cookie Deleter Extension - Chrome Web Store
Unpaywall - Chrome Web Store
Unpaywall - Chrome Web Store
How to Bypass Paywalls at Popular News Sites | Gizmo's Freeware
GitHub - iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome: Bypass Paywalls web browser extension for Chrome and Firefox.
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