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mastermind@lemm.ee to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 2 years ago

12ft.io (paywall article unlocker site) has been banned by Vercel

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12ft.io (paywall article unlocker site) has been banned by Vercel

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mastermind@lemm.ee to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 2 years ago
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  • ArtikBanana@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Bypass Paywalls extension for Firefox.
    Works better and for more sites in my experience.

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      How do I install it on Firefox android, though?

      My phone won’t open xpi files and the only solutions I’ve been able to find is either create a html file in the same folder, which I don’t know how to do on android, or download and install an extension which is ALSO only available as an xpi 🤦

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        deleted by creator

        • Throbbing_Banjo@midwest.social
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          That worked! Awesome, thanks, I tried a few other methods last week with no luck

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          Yay, that works! Thank you!

      • ArtikBanana@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        Well I use Fennec for Android from F-Droid, which has the option of using custom collections for addons.
        I don’t think it’s possible yet on “normal” Firefox other than Nightly.

        • VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf
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          Yeah, on the advice of someone else itt, I switched to Nightly and that worked 🙂

      • Bernie Ecclestoned@sh.itjust.works
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        Import custom filter

        Bypass Paywalls Clean

        I think it’s this one

        https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-clean-filters

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    It has seemed to work on less and less sites for me recently, to the point that I do not visited it as often as I used to.

    But that tweet does sound like pretty bad news…

    • DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de
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      It never ever seemed to work for me.

      • noodle (he/him)@lemm.ee
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        by the time it got popular, it was already not working with multiple big sources.

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    12ft.io was performative useless garbage anyway, if any site can just ask your paywalling bypass site to not bypass their paywall, what is the point of your site

    • TheGreenGolem@lemm.ee
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      Exactly. As soon as they bent over to NYT, I stopped using them.

  • nomadic@lemmy.one
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    https://archive.md/ gets around way more paywalls. Highly recommend it.

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      deleted by creator

    • nicman24@kbin.social
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      disabling js does more

  • empireOfLove@lemmy.one
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    It stopped working on any of the sites I ever bothered to use it on anyway- most of them wisened up to the crawler bypass and simply made a 2 sentence tagline visible to crawlers that hit the SEO terms, with everything else hidden. Soooo nothing of value lost and Capital comes to claim its pie once again.

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    I used to use 12ft.io whenever I needed to read a paywalled article.

    Is the “Bypass paywall clean” extension better than 12ft.io?

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      I use bypass paywalls clean and never see a paywall. so… yes.

      • cole@lemdro.id
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        it doesn’t work for medium articles in my experience

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          I haven’t had any issues with medium personally. But I have pretty extensive blocking as a whole (ublock, adguard, ghostery, ddg, bypass paywalls clean, canvas blocker, etc)

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            Why so many blocking extensions?

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    Some extra context / clarification from the thread re Vercel: they did warn him starting two weeks ago. They’ve stated he has a line open with customer support to get his other projects restored but that hasn’t happened yet.

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      I think that Vercel wants to drop them as a customer entirely. Vercel could’ve suspended the services related to 12ft.io, but Vercel chose to nuke their account from orbit. I’m unsure why Vercel suspended their domains tho. That’s just asking for trouble with ICANN.

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        Out of curiosity, how is it an issue with ICANN? I know they can complain to them, but what category will this fall under?

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          Depends on whether Vercel refuses to give them the domain transfer code.

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    Time for 13ft.io

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      Superb

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    It’s just a glorified web scraper, I didn’t know it was this popular. You could build a barebones scraper and output in less than 10 lines with curl in PHP. And 12ftio used to inject its own code into the output, it’s funny how people were Ozzy with that.

    Everyone who ever does web scraping knew serving it on his own public domain was going to be a problem.

    Boy, people are lazy.

    • GrindingGears@lemmy.ca
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      Today I learned because I can’t code, I’m useless and lazy.

      The fucking people you come across on the internet…smh

      • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        Relevant XKCD.

    • danielton@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz
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      Sure, because everybody who owns a computer, tablet, or smartphone is a web dev. Obviously.

      /s

    • bamboo@lemm.ee
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      That’s not even what 12ft.io was. It wasn’t scraping anything, it was just a redirect to the google web cache. Importantly, it was also accessible, something that anyone could use without installing anything.

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      lmao what an absolutely moronic take.

    • phoneymouse@lemmy.world
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      Please paste the 10 lines here

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        … we’re still waiting

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