F*** Paywalls

by sysadm1n on 11/4/2023, 4:59:18 PM with 88 comments

  • by ArtTimeInvestor on 11/4/2023, 5:11:43 PM

    20 years of World Wide Web and we still don't have micropayments so we can just pay a penny to read an article.

    Why does it take us so long?

  • by zeta0134 on 11/4/2023, 5:17:07 PM

    Here's a thought... Why not let the paying subscribers promote content they especially like to the commons?

    So, if you're a paying member, you get to read everything like it works today. But you also get a steady flow of tips. If you like an article, you can tip the author directly, which comes out of your monthly subscription. Once a given article gets enough tips, it's permanently unlocked for every visitor.

    Basically, good quality content goes public, letting the readers both curate the content and help out those for whom a full subscription is not in the budget.

    Thoughts?

  • by not_your_vase on 11/4/2023, 5:13:33 PM

    We don't want to pay and we don't want to watch ads - still, we want to consume the content. I mean, I get the sentiment, I also share it to a great degree. But how are websites supposed to stay afloat?

  • by 8chanAnon on 11/4/2023, 5:19:16 PM

    Would be nice to see the source code for this. Then I could write up my own app to do the same. We shouldn't need to be dependent on a website that could shut down at any time.

  • by alephnerd on 11/4/2023, 5:03:19 PM

    Doesn't work for most stuff anymore either. I've been using this after archive.ph became captcha hell and 12ft.io got blocked

  • by jimaek on 11/4/2023, 5:17:57 PM

    Is there a service like this that could work on a DNS level?

    I'm using a DNS ad blocker and I could set-up overrides of certain news websites to a different hostname which in turn would redirect to the bypass URL.

    It sounds doable but I haven't seen anything like that

  • by swader999 on 11/4/2023, 5:10:11 PM

    The craziest is paying for state propaganda. Hard no.

  • by spacebacon on 11/4/2023, 5:22:29 PM

    Jeff Johnson's stopthescript and stopthemadness safari plugin for ios and mac os bypasses most paywalls and actually disables javascript. Inline included.

  • by bogota on 11/4/2023, 5:02:57 PM

    How is this different from archive.org?

  • by 1vuio0pswjnm7 on 11/4/2023, 10:55:46 PM

    This appears to be an HTTP proxy. What does this have to do with paywalls.

    Please name one website whose paywall can be bypassed using this proxy.

  • by baby on 11/4/2023, 5:18:34 PM

    Be like me. Flag every paywall article that ends up on hackernews

  • by insanitybit on 11/4/2023, 5:03:37 PM

    lol what do people expect? You say you want a web without ads, now you want a web without paywalls. Sorry, but... pick one. Or watch as the internet collapses.

  • by sidcool on 11/4/2023, 5:13:02 PM

    How does the tech work? How do they bypass the paywall?