Hey there
I made a opensource alternative for these services. Although these worked very well, I was not so confident what they do. So I made my own and opensourced it.
It is written in Golang and is fully customizable.
Readit NewsReadit NewsI made a opensource alternative for these services. Although these worked very well, I was not so confident what they do. So I made my own and opensourced it.
It is written in Golang and is fully customizable.
You mean like Bypass Paywall Clean?
https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean
javascript:location.href='https://archive.is/?run=1&url=%27+encodeURIComponent(documen...
It's a shame Google won't let this addon be in the store.
Edit : The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) prohibits circumventing an effective technological means of control that restricts access to a copyrighted work. I guess that would apply here.
I remember some guy that wrote a WoW bot and got sued using the DMCA, with the argument that his bot was circumventing the anti-cheat and the anti-cheat could be seen as a 'mechanism protecting copyrighted material', because it was safeguarding access to the game servers, the servers were generating parts of the game world (such as sounds) dynamically, and those were under copyright... Wild stuff.
Or, looking at it the other way, if you put a small sticker that says "do not do X" and even one person follows that, isn't that therefore an "effective" method?
It doesn't if you're not in the US.
chrome and firefox extension for removing paywall: https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome
If you want an alternative that only requests permissions for sites with paywalls, this one is better: https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clea...
I tried a Bloomberg article which gave me a "suspicious activity from your IP, please fill out this captcha" page, only the captcha was broken and didn't load.
Then I tried a WSJ article which loaded basically the same couple of paragraphs that I could get for free, but did not load any of the rest of the content.
javascript:window.location.href="https://archive.is/latest/"+location.href
It will usually open up the archived version of article without the paywall.
The ladder applies custom rules to inject code. It basically modifies the origin website to remove the Paywall. It rewrites (most of) the links and assets in the origins HTML to avoid CORS Errors by routing thru the local proxy.
The ladder uses Golangs fiber/fasthttp, which is significantly faster than Python (biased opinion) .
Several small features like basic auth ...
I have a feeling that this performance difference is practically imperceptible to regular humans. It's like optimizing CPU performance when the bottleneck is the database.
* I say "yet" because there could conceivably be ways to mitigate this, but afaik most would involve individual deals/contracts between every search engine & every subscription website - Google's monopoly simplifies this somewhat, but there's not much of an incentive from Google's perpsective to facilitate this at any scale.
Is it actually illegal anywhere to bypass a paywall?
The obvious thing is to mock Googlebot, but site owners can check that the request isn't coming from a Google-published IP and see that it's a fake, right?
> https://github.com/kubero-dev/ladder#environment-variables
> USER_AGENT User agent to emulate Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
> X_FORWARDED_FOR IP forwarder address 66.249.66.1
> RULESET URL to a ruleset file https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubero-dev/ladder/main/rul... or /path/to/my/rules.yaml
just because they can doesn't mean they will... also most "site owners" are (by this point) a completely different people than "site operators" (who I take to be the 'engineers' who indeed can check this IP things)