If they allow each person to view a few articles for free, the “paywall” is just an inconvenience: you can simply make sure you look like another person. Mozil

If they allow each person to view a few articles for free, the “paywall” is just an inconvenience: you can simply make sure you look like another person. Mozilla and Google have decided that clearing cookies and faking a referrer is illegal. Microsoft hasn't yet: https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-firefox https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-firefox I think the add-on author would meet less resistance from the browser oligarchy if they described the add-on as “Read news anonymously: this add-on clears your cookies and referral info on news sites, so you can read their content without being tracked”. Same thing, but avoids DMCA word-crime.