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.
Time to dig out that 14ft ladder
I just copy the link to archive.org and read the archived page
So this doesn’t work for wallstreet Journal pages unfortunately but does work for Natgeo! Thank you!
That’s one short ladder.
Bump for justice, ty
is there a difference between .ph and .is?
Yes.
Edit: I answered the question. You guys have no chill.
ok cool thank you for clearing that up
what is it? (other than “ph” or “is” in the url)
Clearly you already know the difference /s
I have no idea, I just use and remember the one I linked above.
Try turning off JavaScript when ur faced with an overlaying paywall
Lots of sites just dont load anything w JS disabled. Nytimes for example
Yeah…that happens, but from my experience it works a lot of times
Add this to your custom filter list.
Bypass Paywalls Clean filter. Works for me with local papers and others like NYTimes etc.
Do I add this to my Pi-hole?
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.
Oh right! Already use Ublock will give this a go.
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!
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.
It’s cuts off the particular article I want to read, so seems like there is a word limit! Drat!
Have you tried a different browser but still using the archive pages?
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
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Okay, thanks. I tested a bunch of articles in duckduckgo and haven’t come across that yet, but I’ll test a cross browsers and see what happens. I’ll pay attention to the fading text.
What is 12ft?
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.
So what you’re saying is that we need 13ft.io
Go as small as possible so that our ladder only has to get slightly longer. Plus I’m petty.
Everyone besides US Americans won’t understand imperial measurements
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.
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)
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?
Ah got it, thanks.
The great enshittification continues.
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!
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.
This extension works pretty well https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome
