Hacker News Anti-Paywall

by dp-hackernewson 5/18/2025, 10:16 AMwith 7 comments

by burnt-resistoron 5/19/2025, 2:02 AM

It's far too narrowly provincial. Just use a browser extension for archive.today. Easy button and more versatile.

by sylwareon 5/18/2025, 10:24 AM

We need a similar anti-javascript-only-wall.

by washmyelbowson 5/18/2025, 1:19 PM

12ft.io seemed to stop being useful almost immediately after gaining any amount of popularity

by aspenmayeron 5/18/2025, 2:15 PM

> Updated Nov 29, 2022

> The paywall list is taken from the following URL. At first, I was mindfully fetching the list, but then I just manually inserted the list, way simpler this way.

I don't know why you would use this instead of the project it is based on, bypass paywalls clean.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bypass_Paywalls_Clean