YSK - bypass paywall clean browser extension allows reading paywalled websites. works in android firefox too.
You can also just add their list to ublock and it works great. No need to install from a Russian source.
Been using this for years. Followed them from Github to Gitlab to now GitFlic. There are ways you can get the filter list to work with Ublock Origin, but this extension is more consistent. Bless magnolia1234 for continually keeping this gem up to date.
Can I fork this in Microsoft’s GitHub without getting into trouble?
It was in GitHub, then got dmca taken down. Then it was in gitlab and gotten taken down as well.
Why did they decide to host it on a random Russian git service lol
The repo was on GitHub and mirrored on Gitlab for years. Then it got DCMA’d and went to codeberg and got DCMA’d again. Now it’s on gitflic because the Russians dgaf about American copyright law or IP law in general.
tor mirror when?
Shady Russian link? Can’t get it to load
In case if u have reading disability - they got kicked out from all western platforms by shady capitalist lobbyists.
Have fun funding those pricks.Deleted by moderator
yeah, using ableist slurs like a feckless jackass.
I was doing some investigating of various browser telemetry using android pcap log. I noticed that on any browser I install bypass paywall plus there is a call to gitflic.ru when viewing a page even when it’s not on the list of processed websites in the extension. I can’t tell the contents as it’s https. Considering this extension and developer have been around for a long time I’ve no reason to suspect the extension but I’m wondering why the connection? I doubt it’s checking for updates as it does it often when viewing any page. Any thoughts from anyone? I’m not trying to run down the app at all, I think it’s really good, just wondering why the connection.
I took a cursory glance through the source code (for the Firefox version, at least), and I’m not seeing any calls to the gitflic.ru URL outside of the update functions (there appear to be two different places where these might be triggered) and one function for importing custom sites:
// Import custom sites from local/online function import_url_options(e, online) { let url = '/custom/sites_custom.json'; if (online) url = 'https://gitflic.ru/project/magnolia1234/bpc_updates/blob/raw?file=sites_custom.json' + '&rel=' + randomInt(100000); try { fetch(url) .then(response => { if (response.ok) { response.text().then(result => { import_json(result); }) } }); } catch (err) { console.log(err); } }I noticed in the manifest.json, there is the optional permissions array:
"optional_permissions": [ "*://*/*" ],Which seems to grant the extension access to all URLs, so maybe that’s why the HTTP request is able to fire on any given website rather than just the ones explicitly defined in the regular permissions array. Though this is speculation on my part; I’ve only ever written one or two complex Firefox extensions. I’m not sure if the “optional permissions” array can be declined upon installation (or configured in the extension settings after installation); perhaps access to the wildcard URL can be revoked so that this update call isn’t occurring constantly.
All looks okay to me, but this was a very quick audit.
