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Post by simnettpratt on Oct 18, 2021 2:11:37 GMT -5
Found a cool site that allows you to bypass most paywalls. It's called 12ft ladder. 12ft.io/Go there and enter the URL of the site whose paywall you wish to bypass (the part starting with www), and it will add 12ft.io/ to the front of the URL and you'll bypass the paywall. It works by showing you the Google Crawler cache, because sites don't add their paywall to the crawler. You could manually type 12ft.io/ in front of the www if you wanted, but bookmarking the site is less to remember. |
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Post by toshtego on Oct 18, 2021 3:59:59 GMT -5
That could be useful. Thank you.
I hate going to a news article published by a legitimate news source and they insist on my paying for a subscription. I would gladly pay for one view of their article.
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Post by Legend Lover on Oct 18, 2021 6:28:02 GMT -5
I just tested it out. Pretty cool. I need to look up how it works.
Edit: I just found out. Really neat way to get access.
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Post by Plainsman on Oct 18, 2021 9:14:50 GMT -5
I'll have to try that. I subscribe to a couple of news aggregators and when they send me to NYT or WSJ I hit my head on a paywall. This will be great revenge. Many thanks!
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Post by papipeguy on Oct 18, 2021 11:06:48 GMT -5
This is great. Thanks for the tip.
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Post by trailboss on Oct 19, 2021 9:52:41 GMT -5
Pretty cool, thanks!
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Post by toshtego on Oct 19, 2021 14:08:30 GMT -5
I'll have to try that. I subscribe to a couple of news aggregators and when they send me to NYT or WSJ I hit my head on a paywall. This will be great revenge. Many thanks! I subscribe to the NY Times (the crossword puzzle) and the Taos Tattler. I cannot afford subscriptions with the WSJ, WaPo, Forbes, Economist, Albuquerque Journal, Santa Fe Deceiver or the rest of the newspapers. |
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Post by simnettpratt on Oct 19, 2021 15:44:39 GMT -5
Well now you have a twelve foot ladder for their ten foot paywall, and using one of the primary internet censor's tools against 'em is icing on the cake.
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Post by rastewart on Oct 19, 2021 16:36:00 GMT -5
Very useful, thanks!
I sometimes use another site, printfriendly.com, to bypass paywalls and create (as the name suggests) printable and PDF versions of web pages, but it doesn't work on everything; not on Medium, for example. So I'm looking forward to trying this out.
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Post by Plainsman on Oct 19, 2021 18:18:27 GMT -5
Tried it with WSJ and no workee.
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Post by mgtarheel on Oct 19, 2021 18:52:12 GMT -5
Tried it on two different sites, could not get it to work
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Post by simnettpratt on Oct 19, 2021 21:50:12 GMT -5
If WSJ means Wall Street Journal, I played with it and no, using the Crawler cache doesn't work, sorry.
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Post by Plainsman on Oct 20, 2021 8:55:59 GMT -5
Ain't your fault.  |
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Post by Stearmandriver on Oct 20, 2021 17:25:41 GMT -5
Tried a couple sites... works on the Post, no luck on WSJ. Oh well, a decent tool even if it doesn't work everywhere. Thanks for sharing.
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