Getting around magazine paywalls (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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Do you folks have any tips on how to get around magazine and newspaper paywalls? It seems like the old tricks are becoming less reliable and it's frustrating - especially given paywalls seem to be becoming more stringent at the same time.

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[-] Maglen@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

There have been instances where 12ft.io hasn't worked and I found this workaround for chrome (tinker for your browser of choice)

F12 for developer tools (or 3 dots for chrome)
Run Command (Ctrl + Shift + P)
Type "Java" > Disable Java script
F5 refresh

What this does is disable all the java based popups which just so happens to be paywall prompts.

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