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News publishers take paywall-blocker 12ft.io offline
- BallsInIt 1y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bypass_Paywalls_Clean https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bypass_Paywalls_Clean Repeatedly DMCA'd so you know it's good.
- nikcub 1y agoit's so good that I didn't even realise I wasn't logged into my bloomberg and NYTimes subscriptions.
- aspenmayer 1y agoThe Talk page for that wiki entry is a microcosm of tech society, and illustrates the need for Wikipedia and its commitment to neutral point of view. It’s a difficult position to stake out, and it’s a nuanced one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Bypass_Paywalls_Clean#Website_links https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Bypass_Paywalls_Clean#Web...
- forsalebypwner 1y agoHere's my take on the format: https://github.com/kylefmohr/archive.is-redirector https://github.com/kylefmohr/archive.is-redirector Available in the Chrome Web Store
- VonTum 1y agoI commend all those who take the risk of setting up these bypasses. You take enormous personal legal risk in providing a service that morally shouldn't have been paywalled in the first place. Knowledge wants to be free after all.
- venusenvy47 1y agoCan't these services be run from a country where The News/Media Alliance doesn't have jurisdiction?
- pabs3 1y agoDupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44639135 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44639135
- Irongirl1 1y agoFrustrating. Someday, I'd like to see headlines that focus on news publishers working on reasonable payment systems for article access. Like bulk buys ( X articles for $) via giftcard or whatever. Instead, every single time this comes up, it always ends with less access, more siloing...less connections made, more cruft to shift. Innovation requires access to info, but if you never see it...it's hard to make connections that count or that could be helpful. Same problem that appears in Science research...if only on a smaller scale.