Do you folks have any tips on how to get around magazine and newspaper paywalls? It seems like the old tricks are becoming less reliable and it’s frustrating - especially given paywalls seem to be becoming more stringent at the same time.
Do you folks have any tips on how to get around magazine and newspaper paywalls? It seems like the old tricks are becoming less reliable and it’s frustrating - especially given paywalls seem to be becoming more stringent at the same time.
One thing is learning how to manually do it from your browser.
F12 brings up the console, which lets you inspect the page. For some, the paywall is a shitty <div> that you can remove by selecting it on the console and hitting DELETE key. If you ever mess up the whole site, refresh and try again.
In other cases, you have to disable the page’s javascript. Firefox + NoScript makes this very easy. The problem is that many sites simply don’t work at all without javascript, everything is loaded from there.
Might not work with every site, since the smarter ones don’t load the full content unless you’re a paying member, so you can get rid of the paywall, but the full thing won’t load anyway.