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If I want to read https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/05/19/post-american-world-is-now-full-display/, I have to use archive.vn which allows me to go past the paywall (https://archive.vn/yTP0x). However, archive.vn is still proprietary so I installed ArchiveBox which is free software but does not go past the paywall. Does anyone have any solutions?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Option 1 - at least for me WaPo paywalls go away if I disable Javascript on that page. You may want to try that.

Optiom 2 - I find this to be a reasonably well source for archived pages.

http://www.cachedpages.com/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago (1 children)

My Recommendations:

  1. bypass paywalls. Browser extension for both Firefox and Chrome. Works really well.

The rest MAY work depending on the website...

  1. Some sites you can simply disable the javascript to read the text. (example: https://www.saltwire.com/)
  2. Add a dot to the URL after .com ( example news.com/article -> news.com./article ) to read the text.
  3. Outline.com the news URL as others have recommended but I find it now supports less and less sites.
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 years ago

In alternative to installing another extension try this ublock origin list first: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/llacb47/miscfilters/master/antipaywall.txt

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago

Is there a way to run the bypass-paywalls extension on android? Seems even with Firefox nightly it needs to be on the Firefox extension 'store'