It’s working less and less though. You can’t do this on websites like Wall Street Journal or Bloomberg because the article doesn’t actually load more than the first paragraph without being subscribed.
You can use an add-on like this that will set your browser’s user agent to look like a bot. They allow Google to read websites for indexing, but not you humble user.
js was a mistake
All praise Firefox reader view!
😂 as soon as I see any pop up on an article i’m reading I smash the reader view button… for other sites I have an addon to reload the page without JS
You should be browsing with an allowlist. Keep the JS off by default.
You can also reload the page in the Reader view, which bypasses those initial weak walls.
It’s working less and less though. You can’t do this on websites like Wall Street Journal or Bloomberg because the article doesn’t actually load more than the first paragraph without being subscribed.
That’s why i first do https://archive.md/ then then readerview hehe
https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean
You can use an add-on like this that will set your browser’s user agent to look like a bot. They allow Google to read websites for indexing, but not you humble user.
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