Here's a thought... Why not let the paying subscribers promote content they especially like to the commons?
So, if you're a paying member, you get to read everything like it works today. But you also get a steady flow of tips. If you like an article, you can tip the author directly, which comes out of your monthly subscription. Once a given article gets enough tips, it's permanently unlocked for every visitor.
Basically, good quality content goes public, letting the readers both curate the content and help out those for whom a full subscription is not in the budget.
Thoughts?
We don't want to pay and we don't want to watch ads - still, we want to consume the content. I mean, I get the sentiment, I also share it to a great degree. But how are websites supposed to stay afloat?
Would be nice to see the source code for this. Then I could write up my own app to do the same. We shouldn't need to be dependent on a website that could shut down at any time.
Doesn't work for most stuff anymore either. I've been using this after archive.ph became captcha hell and 12ft.io got blocked
Is there a service like this that could work on a DNS level?
I'm using a DNS ad blocker and I could set-up overrides of certain news websites to a different hostname which in turn would redirect to the bypass URL.
It sounds doable but I haven't seen anything like that
The craziest is paying for state propaganda. Hard no.
Jeff Johnson's stopthescript and stopthemadness safari plugin for ios and mac os bypasses most paywalls and actually disables javascript. Inline included.
How is this different from archive.org?
This appears to be an HTTP proxy. What does this have to do with paywalls.
Please name one website whose paywall can be bypassed using this proxy.
Be like me. Flag every paywall article that ends up on hackernews
lol what do people expect? You say you want a web without ads, now you want a web without paywalls. Sorry, but... pick one. Or watch as the internet collapses.
How does the tech work? How do they bypass the paywall?
20 years of World Wide Web and we still don't have micropayments so we can just pay a penny to read an article.
Why does it take us so long?