You will go straight to jail 😡😡😡

  • Lucy :3@feddit.org
    141·
    22 days ago

    12ft.io almost never works for me tbh.

    Also, appending before something is called prepending, similar to how a prefix after something is a suffix.

  • Kalkaline @leminal.space
    89·
    22 days ago

    Definitely don’t use uBlock Origin’s zapper mode to get rid of elements on the page that are blocking your view.

    • ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      28·
      22 days ago

      Truly awful. How will the news megacorp get its money? You wouldn’t steal the information required for you to be aware of world events? Right?

      • cRazi_man@lemm.ee
        6·
        22 days ago

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        • greencactus@lemmy.world
          1·
          22 days ago

          <arbitration clause: if you sign up, you cannot make any claims against cRazi_man. in case we fucked up, I guess sucks for you, byeeeee>

      • lud@lemm.ee
        21·
        22 days ago

        If you just want to be aware, you could often read the headlines for free or follow news sites like Reuters, AFP, or AP.

        They are primarily wire news companies and are a great way to get reliable, truthful and often free news. If you want to read longer articles, you should pay if you want to have articles to read in the future.

  • Metostopholes@midwest.socialEnglish
    46·
    22 days ago

    Back during prohibition in the US, there was a product called Vine-Glo that was a brick of grape concentrate. It came with a warning: “After dissolving the brick in a gallon of water, do not place the liquid in a jug away in the cupboard for twenty days, because then it would turn into wine.”

  • sudoer777@lemmy.ml
    27·
    22 days ago

    Doesn’t NYT cut off most of the article now? I used to just be able to disable JS but that didn’t work anymore last I checked.

    • xenoclast@lemmy.world
      11·
      22 days ago

      Yeah the article stub doesn’t link to the article. It links to a login flow with the article id. If you go directly to the article you get redirected if you don’t have a session.

      It’s incredibly easy to make an impossible to get around paywall. Porn has done it since the Internet existed.

      In this very particular situation I’m glad most companies are lazy and stupid.

      I don’t particularly care if a company does pay only content. I think its legitimately ok. I hate companies that don’t make you pay enough for the service to cover their costs thus leading to complete enshitifaction.

      • ChuckEffingNorris@lemmy.ml
        8·
        22 days ago

        I thought the issue was they wanted search engines to be able to see the content, but not non paying viewers? Hence slightly shitty paywalls.

      • humorlessrepost@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        22 days ago

        It’s incredibly easy to make an impossible to get around paywall.

        Sure, but the easily-bypassed js method makes sure it’s still crawlable by search engines, which is a trade well worth making where I work. Doesn’t matter as much for porn sites since the title and description aren’t the content most people are there for, so you can expose them on the paywall page.

        • xenoclast@lemmy.world
          2·
          22 days ago

          Very true. I don’t disagree at all. I think once google finally becomes totally useless. It won’t matter.

          I mean Google is already just Yellow Pages AdWords edition with AI content

        • sudoer777@lemmy.ml
          1·
          22 days ago

          Maybe they have a way to unblock major search engine crawlers but block it for everyone else now? I know Cloudflare was doing something similar for some bot protection mechanism, and this seems like something news outlets would want to do also.

    • Polysics@lemmy.world
      2·
      22 days ago

      Brave browser has a filter to bypass paywalls. Works on desktop and mobile versions. Definitely works on NYT as I just read something there today. And of course has built in adblock. You can also add additional filters and adblock lists.

      Bonus: print to PDF in Brave to share an article with someone else. It retains all the graphics relevant to the article and cuts all the junk and ads out too.

  • flashgnash@lemm.ee
    26·
    22 days ago

    I just hope nobody clicks the reader view button in the top right, it would be just terrible if they got an ad free, paywall free version of the site

  • abbenm@lemmy.ml
    171·
    22 days ago

    Wow, I feel like the most upvoted solutions here don’t work, and meanwhile some obvious and widely known alternatives are being completely overlooked.

    ❌ Inspect Element - many modern sites don’t even include the full article in the paywalled html, so this wouldn’t work. Also sitting there and mousing over elements and deleting them one by one, is tedious, it’s easy to accidentally delete an element that encloses the content you intended to keep, or to drive yourself crazy trying to figure out how elements are nested.

    ❌ Ublock Zapper - a similar to the above, won’t work on stub articles, and just janky because you’re manually zapping things

    ❌ Disabled JavaScript - Similar to the above, same problem because many articles are stubs anyway. And the HTML layers that block your view don’t have to be done with JavaScript.

    ❌ Rapid copy and paste of the article to notepad or rapidly printing the screen - similar problem to the above, lots of places just post the stub of an article, and besides nobody should live their life this way rapidly trying to print screen or copy everything. If you’re trying to do a quick copy you’re going to grab all kinds of gobbledygunk from the page and probably have to manually filter it out.

    ❌ Reader Mode - Your browsers reader mode will be hit and miss because, again, many sites post stub articles, and it’s possible the pay wall stuff will just get formatted into the reader mode along with an incomplete article.

    ✅ Archive.is - works!

    ✅ Pocket and Instapaper - amazingly, nobody has mentioned these even though they’re probably the longest running (dating back to 2007-2008), possibly most widely known, and most consistent solutions that still work to this day. They keep their own local caches of articles, so it’s not depending on the full content being visible on the page.

    ✅ Other dedicated extensions - Dedicated browser extensions seem to work, but be careful what you’re signing yourself up for.

    🤷‍♀️ Brave - It works, but, it’s a Chromium supported browser, so ultimately Google controls the destiny and can drive Chromium to incorporate fundamental frameworks supporting DRM and pushing their preferred web standards.

  • Pickle_Jr@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    13·
    22 days ago

    Firefox has a button that shows up in the url that kind of turns the webpage into an e-book-esque view that pops up for most articles (especially Pay Wall)

    • ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      4·
      22 days ago

      It will also simultaneously render the vast majority of the internet useless, and not only the shitty parts that you don’t want/need anyway.

      • curry@programming.dev
        2·
        22 days ago

        Javascript is overrated and more websites should be static with minimal interactive bs. But that’s just me, a cynical user tired of intrusive pop-ups and predatory advertising scripts.