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Yeah 12ft doenst seem to work on any sites anymore. Does anyone have any alternatives that work? I'm already familiar with the airplane mode trick but that's not always fit for purpose.

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[–] can@sh.itjust.works 50 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Time to dig out that 14ft ladder

[–] variants@possumpat.io 31 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I just copy the link to archive.org and read the archived page

[–] Nugelz@programming.dev 16 points 2 years ago

So this doesn't work for wallstreet Journal pages unfortunately but does work for Natgeo! Thank you!

[–] nooneescapesthelaw@lemmy.ml 24 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 years ago

That's one short ladder.

[–] lacarsi@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago

Bump for justice, ty

[–] skankhunt42@lemmy.ca 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] applejacks@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

is there a difference between .ph and .is?

[–] elbarto777@lemmy.world -3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Yes.

Edit: I answered the question. You guys have no chill.

[–] applejacks@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago

ok cool thank you for clearing that up

[–] olicvb@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

what is it? (other than "ph" or "is" in the url)

[–] skankhunt42@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

Clearly you already know the difference /s

I have no idea, I just use and remember the one I linked above.

[–] moonmeow@lemmy.ml 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Try turning off JavaScript when ur faced with an overlaying paywall

[–] library_napper@monyet.cc 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Lots of sites just dont load anything w JS disabled. Nytimes for example

[–] moonmeow@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah..that happens, but from my experience it works a lot of times

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 15 points 2 years ago
[–] TarquinNimrod@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Add this to your custom filter list.

Bypass Paywalls Clean filter. Works for me with local papers and others like NYTimes etc.

[–] Nugelz@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Do I add this to my Pi-hole?

[–] TarquinNimrod@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Eh, no.. I meant in the settings in uBlock Origin, which you would already have installed as an addon in your browser of choice. Choose open dashboard, it opens at filter lists and down the bottom is 'Import', just below 'Custom'. Add the url to import, it'll do its thing and you'll have a new entry in 'Custom'. Sorry, don't know much about Pi-Holes.

[–] Nugelz@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh right! Already use Ublock will give this a go.

[–] TarquinNimrod@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

No prob! Coupled with zero ads, it's like it used to be back in the day, just.. well, an article with some images. Good luck!

[–] Melody@lemmy.one 13 points 2 years ago
[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The archive sites work great, even for WSJ articles. I just checked after I saw your comment saying archive.ph doesn't work for WSJ articles, and it works fine for archiving WSJ articles.

[–] Nugelz@programming.dev 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's cuts off the particular article I want to read, so seems like there is a word limit! Drat!

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Which article? That is interesting, I haven't had that issue yet, but I just started using these archived pages a couple weeks ago so I'm curious about their limits

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

Have you tried a different browser but still using the archive pages?

[–] glorious_albus@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] mean_bean279@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago (3 children)

12ft.io is a website that allows you to bypass paywalls on websites. Specifically for articles/news. The idea being “show me a 10ft wall and I’ll build a 12ft ladder.” It worked well against a lot of article and news outlet paywalls originally, but as time has gone on more and more sites are starting to show up on it as unable to bypass.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So what you're saying is that we need 13ft.io

[–] mean_bean279@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

12ft1in.io

Go as small as possible so that our ladder only has to get slightly longer. Plus I’m petty.

[–] library_napper@monyet.cc -2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Everyone besides US Americans won't understand imperial measurements

[–] mean_bean279@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Since there’s approximately 17,000 Subway Sandwich locations across 100 countries outside the United States I’m gonna say that most people can just imagine 12 (maybe 13 if we assume the 11in subway lawsuit) full size Subway Sandwiches stacked on top of each other.

[–] pragmakist@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

More than 400000 of us for each of those locations then, and how many of us have then bothered to wander in, I wonder?

Anyway, would you really trust an American company to actually make their sandwiches 1ft tall?

How would you even start to eat such a thing?

(Also most standardized feet are around 30 cm, so 12ft is ~ 3.6 m)

[–] Very_Bad_Janet@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

I just went to 12ft.io and got the following message:

This Deployment has been disabled.

Your connection is working correctly.

Vercel is working correctly.

So I'm guessing the site is gone?

[–] glorious_albus@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

Ah got it, thanks.

The great enshittification continues.

[–] moreeni@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago
[–] Very_Bad_Janet@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I saw this advice on an IG post (https://www.instagram.com/reel/CxBpKwrSblD/?igshid=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==).

This is for a desktop computer. I'm adding in the brackets what I believe are the actions they are taking in the IG video if you don't want to click the link:

"If you're on a website that's forcing you to log in, [right click over the article and select] Inspect Elements, highlight over [the page and select] Delete [and then select] Node."

I have not tried this myself. If you have clearer directions please reply to this comment!

[–] ItsGatorSeason@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago

This works for some sites, but honestly it's easier using the Firefox reading mode on those sites, it basically does the same thing. It only works if the page loads the full articles text behind the pay wall popup which unfortunately not many do.