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Gonna go out on a limb and say that 9 times out of 10 if this works, turning off JS will also work.
To which I'd then suggest just getting a browser extension like uMatrix to set up whitelisting for JS since it's a big ol' security hole anyways. Kill two birds with one stone.
I love when professors send you a list of sites you should stay away from lest you'll get an illegitimate copy of the textbook. I love it even more when professors just don't care about the optics and straight up email the whole class a link to libgen. But there was one professor at my uni that outdid all of them. He just took it upon himself to write a textbook for every course on the entire math curriculum and sold them for like $3-5 depending on the size of the book.
I don't do this. If I see a paywall, I don't visit the site again.
The Verge recently went with paywalls... I just deleted the bookmark. It was never a very good site anyway. They blasted an Android phone for doing something new, and then praised Apple for doing the exact same thing. I forget what. We were calling them iVerge for a while after that. (It was not recently.) Even as an Apple guy, I could not respect that. But the content has been entertaining, so I kept going back. I definitely will not pay them for their content though.
Oh you mean the guys that hazed an idiot by making him do a pc build tutorial?
I never really understood why they make these paywalls so badly i mean, its great for us, fuck paywalls and so, but if i wanted to hide something from someone i would not send the text to them, and then quickly put a white piece of paper over it, hoping you wouldn't notice.
It's so strange to me
The reason is a match between SEO and forcing users to pay. The problem is that they want crawler bots and the alike to index the page, so when you search for something mentioned in the article you can actually find it, but when you want to read it, they show you a paywall.
I guess that they want to be indexed by google for the full content but not to be seen by you.
Because you weren’t going to pay. The people that don’t know any better/have the money to spend on a subscription would just as soon pay for the convenience of not doing everything above.
The real heroes.
How is it I never thought to use the print pdf or copy paste trick? Would have saved me a bunch of struggling prior to finding the paywall removers.
And DO NOT DEFINITELY search Internet Archive for the first version of the article!
DuckDuckGo bangs are great for this. Just add !wayback (with the space) after the URL of the article you are reading, and it will search the Wayback Machine for that article.
Example: If the URL for the article is website.com/propaganda.html, change it to website.com/propaganda.html !wayback and press enter.
This also works on Kagi for anybody else using it
Works with Kagi and Brave too!
Both of you guys are godsends. Thankyou. I never knew this
I have a JavaScript bookmark that you click from any site that'll automatically pull up the latest archived version. Super handy.
javascript:window.location.href = "https://web.archive.org/web/" + window.location.href;
Hasn't worked on most sites in a long time. The obscuring is now done on the server side so the text never gets to the browser. Otherwise it used to be easy to just use the developer console or uBlock to just remove the components that concealed the text or prevent the browser refreshing to prevent the concealing.
I can't recall which right now, but there are ones that manage to scrape the entire content by spoofing the Google crawler.
Since websites want to maximise their SEO, they must provide the raw content to be indexed better
Often the content is available without masking for a very short time so scrapers can access them or similar tricks to allow them access immediately after posting. But that requires that you hit the server immediately after the story is posted and there is no masking at all usually in those cases. That's how things like archive.is get a copy for example. But none of that is client/browser side anymore, at least on the major sites. Otherwise it's easy to defeat if the content is already provided to the browser and just masked with JavaScript or something that runs locally and can be blocked.
Just because it bothered me
~~append before~~ prepend.
Firefox (or other browsers idk) with reading mode works 90% of the time.
I've found more and more that sites are blocking it... But it still works a lot of the time. Maybe like 50/50 for me.
If it doesn't work, try going into reading mode, then reloading the page. Often times, that catches many of the problematic sites that try to block Reading Mode
~~Is there any way to install this on Android?~~
Should have read the page first. There are very simple instructions for installing on Android.
Sadly 12ft.io has been taken offline
Yeah this is really old and out of date
It’s not piracy in any way shape or form. If they sent the document to your computer then you have the document, reading that document and saving it elsewhere are not crimes and never can be, because the only way the Internet works is by transmitting the document to you where your computer must store it in some way.
This is how I feel about ads. If I request an article or video from a website and they send it to me alongside an ad, shouldn't I just be able to say "no thank you" to the ad and not accept it\block it. The content I asked for was willingly sent to me so it seems hard to claim that it was stolen or pirated.
Yes that’s exactly why adblockers will always be legal. You cannot be forced to run spyware on your own computer systems (unless the law changes which it might).
Except that is not how it works and courts have in the past ruled for the website and against people who took "secret" information out of web responses that were "not supposed to be displayed" in the browser.
Name the cases.
Weird, I've read the opposite. I've heard courts have ruled that data returned by servers is public, even if they're obscured in the front end
No you’re most likely talking about computer access, not piracy. And please do link the ones you’re talking about.
My rule of thumb: Do not ever link to, or follow links to, or read the New York Times.
Exactly, those guys are scum. Read the Washington Post, much cooler dudes, totally not parroting billionaire talking points.
I'm sure there's still a good American newspaper out there somewhere, but I don't know what it is. All the familiar big ones seem to have fallen.
There aren't any good 'big' ones, but local ones are often worth paying for and supporting since they actually do good journalism.
This is my point. People don't want to pay for any journalism, so all of it billionaire talking points and clickbait.
Disabling Javascript with ublock origin works most of time for me.