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As a software developer I tend to open the development console in my browser to see if I can remove paywalls or if i can identify errors if a site isn't working
I miss when paywalls could be trivially bypassed by deleting the overlay
Sometimes it's still possible, but getting rare. Usually you also have to remove
overflow: hiddenfrom one of the top tags.Something I can't relate to because I'm hopeless with the back end stuff. I've always search "pay wall remover" to get rid of the pay walls.. And if it still doesn't work, I just find another article to read. I didn't realise that you can just remove it on your own end!
One tip I can give is, that disabling JavaScript (for Firefox theres an add-on called no-script that does this) gets rid of quite a lot of unwanted stuff on websites.
For removing paywalls there are tools like 12feet.io or the internet archive where you can archive websites to remove paywalls.
In theory theres also archive.today, bit they started to redirect visits to their website to Wikipedia to DDOS them, so its better to not use their service.
Thank you for sharing! I'm going to add that right now to Firefox. Why can't we just have websites without the ads and flashy stuff. If I want to look up a recipe, I don't want to take out another insurance policy or download "the most popular game".
While you are at it I also highly recommend UBlock Origin. Probably like the best ad Blocker out there.
One thing I should also maybe add about disabling JavaScript: Some websites "need" JS to have even the most basic functionality. So if a website does not work the way it should he, you should try to (maybe even just temporarily) enable JS for that specific site.
Oh, that I have! I've also got RemovePaywalls.com. Doesn't always work, so I just search "pay wall remover" and copy and paste the URL in to that.
Thank you so much! I'll give that a shot. I might come back to this comment thread in the future if I have more questions. 😅 😊
You're welcome :3