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[–] gustofwind@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Got I hate fucking paywalls

[–] ButteryMonkey@piefed.social 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Here’s an archive link for you.

https://archive.ph/cvFNb

In the future, you can go to archive.ph and put in the url and it’s usually already been archived. There are some paywalls it doesn’t get through, but it handles most of them.

[–] gustofwind@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I know but it irritates me to add that step for every single article (how is OP viewing it too?)

Blessed is the OP who simply provides the archived link as well

When I’m in mobile I often won’t even bother and just go about my day

[–] Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

how is OP viewing it too?

Blessed is the OP who fully utilizes their adblocker.

[–] gustofwind@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

lol I use an adblocker and that results in most paywall articles not displaying anything at all or just breaking the website (your link doesn’t display the article under my AdGuard or uBlock)

If it needs more configuration than I’ve already given it the real problem is you not just posting the archive link with it 🤷‍♀️

If you’re gonna share articles you should actually share them

[–] Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm sorry, your poor system configuration is my problem? Getting blank pages is a you problem.

[–] gustofwind@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You’re the one sharing articles dude so unless you don’t want people to read them I’m not sure what your position here is

By all means continue sharing paywalled articles that 99% of people can’t read without all hitting the archive sites themselves

Great work 👍

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Firefox Android + uBlock Origin = magic.

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Don't know if you care, but with uBlock origin on Firefox mobile and this list the article is still behind the pay wall

[–] Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Which one is the second? On the page you linked nothing looks like a list to remove pay walls except the list you linked

[–] Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip 2 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I was perhaps a little too subtle but I linked 2 lists:

https://codeberg.org/Mahogany0330/BeautifyingPageCleaner

And

https://github.com/liamengland1/miscfilters/blob/master/antipaywall.txt

The first one's title and description are perhaps intentionally vague, but both work together nicely to make pages more accessible :)

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 1 points 5 days ago

Still same, these two lists seem to not be enough

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 1 points 5 days ago

Ah, you're right, I missed that there are three links, and kept clicking the same word. I'll try to add that list, thanks