Bypass Paywalls

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[@Zundfolge]

One thing I've found that gets me around my local newspaper's pay wall (which looks a lot like the KC Star's page) is to set my VPN to a foreign location (like Hong Kong). They don't seem to mind if foreigners read the paper for free.

[@destruction74]

😂👍

[@whohan779]

Actually Hong Kong may be special as it's the freest "part of China" (even though I still see it somewhat independent per five-decade agreement since '97). Maybe you're 'exploiting' some goodwill there. Or it could just be they assume Hong Kongers don't understand English somehow.

[@Zundfolge]

@@whohan779 I just tried it with the VPN set to London and it still worked.

[@whohan779]

@@Zundfolge Weird. Seems like the reverse of what I'm experiencing due to GDPR, but I'm also on very cheaply acquired NordVPN which doesn't have many locations, but those it does.

[@stephensaines7100]

Yeah. Those same pubs (mostly) allow you to get in the 'back door' by entering the article title into Google.

[@baruchben-david4196]

I miss the olden days when you could view contents without being asked to accept cookies, without hitting paywalls, without endless ads popping up... I get that people want to be paid for their content, but... it seems to me they've gone too far in that direction...

[@369ZIR]

You’re right. Can’t take a dump without using money. 😂 adds and payments everywhere

[@realabhinavarya]

Capitalism

[@MangyPL]

uBlock helps with a lot of this.

[@TheFrozenblaze_]

I love the pay walls where you can click inspect on the elements blocking your view, delete them from the page HTML, and continue reading what was behind the element uninhibited.

[@stephensaines7100]

I've had mixed success with that, and it gobbles a lot of resources to do it.

[@nemiw4429]

@@stephensaines7100 g... goebbels.. Joseph.... goebbels?!!!!

[@dra6o0n]

What they do now is only show you 1/10th of the article and not load in the rest, and put a paywall sticker. Also news articles put behind paywalls put at risk the ability to investigate the source and if the article is geniuine.

[@nemiw4429]

@@dra6o0n adblockers, removing pay Walls. How do you think will they be able to work in future? Are they supposed to work for free, from underneath a bridge? Why is everyone allowed to make a living, but Websites get their income taken away and its totally accepted? I had a Website running with several thousand users daily. I developed several calculators. When I realised that over 85% had adblockers and I made arround 80.- minus 30.- for the Server monthly and 30.- Domain costs per year (48.- profit per month). Wo 48.- for 50'000 people using my tools? Bye bye. They can look for another idi*t that develops free stuf. I learned alot and always worked fulltime as developer making a very good salary. Now my hourly pay is 200 Euros. Of course I only get a fraction of that, but 1.2h of work now equals to about a month income for providing 50k people service. And I didnt placce hundreds of ads on the page. One on the right side and one between the calculators. Not inside the calculator on the "calculate" Button, nor these annoying anchor ads thst move with the scrolling.

[@baruchben-david4196]

If I run into a paywall when I follow a link from Google, I use an extension called uBlacklist. I click on the link in Google, and from then on, Google doesn't show me links with that paywall. Better than getting partway into an article only to be blocked...

[@bcarr1122]

As a person with a disability who's on a limited income, I appreciate these suggestions.

[@djgenxx]

You are my go-to guy for quailty technical content Chris. Another well delivered video.

[@shatterstone3045]

Best video I've seen all day. You're pretty much my go to tech guy, Chris. Some incredible information again, with great presentation as usual. Keep it up!

[@Alpha-ms9nj]

I'm 61 years old, can't work due to disability and funds are tight. I'm upgrading from an ancient 32 bit Dell GX520 (with LMDE 5 installed with your help) to a 64 bit Dell 3620 WS to at least have something more modern and your videos are the best for helping me learn and keep up with so much computer related tech. You taking the time to explain and to show the steps and procedures necessary to become more proficient in all things computer related is truly helpful. Thank you so much for sharing your expertise and knowledge.

[@foxyolk]

ok

[@paulvincentsuarez9038]

Thank you chris for all your contributions to the community. You make the web a safer place to dive on.

[@gammalambda3331]

In case you don't want to install an Add-on: The easiest way to bypass cookie-based paywalls is to just block cookies from the website you want to look at. Every big browser can do that. Note: Sometimes you need to delete all cookies off the site after you started blocking them. This is only necessary onse.

[@Revenant483]

Thank you Chris !!! Outstanding extensions to add to my browsing experience!

[@Dragnarok28]

I love your video's man, keep it up! Very instructive

[@moonwalking5371]

you always help to make my life better and better on the internet, it started from the debloat windows video and now you are here making my internet experience better as well, thank you so much

[@Reaverstyle1]

Nice one Chris, I've used so much of your contents tip and tricks that my windows 10 is now fully customized bloat free so much better in performance and responsiveness.😁

[@shadowstorm657]

I love this channel for these random things. I normally just inspect element to bypass paywalls or disable scripts etc but it breaks alot of things. This will help out a ton

[@haroldbacker5915]

another must-have extension thank you, Chris

[@kpcraftster6580]

Every other channel: Try to avoid browser add-ons when possible. Chris: Got any problem whatsoever? There's probably an add-on that can fix that. 😂

[@John-King87]

I love this video Chris. Nice work 👍👍👍😅

[@Gruesome420]

Well, it's nice to see you try this on the exact local paper I planned to use it on lol. KC gang rise up?? I love the clickbait removal SO much. I really hope there's more stuff out there like this, that tones down the psychological warfare for my attention span online. I've been looking for stuff to make the whole web browsing experience more....normal, or something like that, but it's hard to pin down what I'm even looking for and much harder finding it. Great vid!

[@DaeronRT]

That's a great videop Chris, thanks for that! What it could be also helpful is something related to how to keep your browser fresh when you search for fly tickets. This could help a lot!

[@victorjo7918]

Good tip

[@Traxmaeus]

Back in the day I've used to do this manually. When I've opened a page or article that had a paywall pop-up, immediately after loading the page I pressed the "X" to stop loading the page and it stopped the popup.

[@frankybats9999]

Brilliant video, thanks for this information.

[@TheKeksadler]

I'm glad this video checks the one website I'd actually use the paywall bypass most often on lol

[@aaronjmonson]

This is big brain AF. I love this! Shout out from KC!

[@tokiomitohsaka7770]

Thanks for letting us know of this extension.

[@andynorton7529]

It really works! Thank you. Excellent tool.

[@RicardoPenders]

This is cool man, thanks for sharing

[@craigw4644]

Pretty cool, did not work on a local news site, added the site to options, now it is working. Nice.

[@Bluelagoonstudios]

Rofl, the fun you have breaking their code is contagious 😁🤣

[@ichigoofy]

Hi, thanks for the suggestion. Do you have any recommendations of how to do something like this using either an advanced firewall or proxy server? That way for devices that wouldn't support this method you could still benefit the add blocking. Would be awesome if pi-hole would add this functionally.

[@cagedtigersteve]

Thanks for the tip! I rarely go to any of these news sites anymore because of these paywalls.

[@linuxstreamer8910]

i love that the remove paywall extension has dutch news sites/newspapers

[@wolliebolly]

Good luck getting it to work. Does not work.

[@MarlinAMB]

Most of time, mainly in the smartphone but also on pc, I just use the read mode... it works most of cases. Only problem when the pictures or videos don't load. And, there are a lot of Brazilian online newspapers too... I liked =D Nice tip.

[@fookingsog]

@Chris Titus Tech Thanks a Bunch!!! You're the "Bro's Bro" of Computer Gurus!!!

[@Sultan_Muhammad_Ali]

Thank you Chris, and i subscribed to your channel :)

[@levibaraka]

The evil launch got me cracking 😂😂

[@sathyaiyer3657]

Hey Chris, thank you so much for sharing "Bypass paywalls" video. With your help, I am able to view and read HBR (Harvard Business Review) articles in my laptop! I appreciate the time you've taken to prepare this video. And guess what? You've earned yourself a like and subscription! To everyone else: I'm excited to know whether this video helped you, and what publications (and why) do you read from. Thanks!

[@thesqueak5474]

your camera work looks great and i like the new lighting.

[@Krisztian5HUN]

wow really nice, awesome vid, thankyou!

[@davidkachel]

I have a better solution that takes no time at all... Realizing that absolutely NONE of these paywall sites really have any "news" that you want to read so badly, you are willing to allow them to inconvenience you. The best revenge is for them to know they have caused you to completely lose interest.

[@kakarroto007]

I've been using the Firefox version of that plugin for years. Would highly recommend. 10/10

[@PyroX82]

Hi Chris, informative video. Bypassing the German newspaper Zeit does work but unfortunately not the second one on the list of the addon. By the way. What OS are you using in that video? Looks nice.

[@raylopez99]

It works in Firefox, even for the NY Times! Hope this video is not taken down...useful advice.

[@theepicslayer7sss101]

this is something i usually achieved with pressing F11 when they put a popup over things, since i have "no money", a paywall is just a waste of bandwidth on their part. i don't use an ad blocker, i just have "noscript" and a list of "blacklisted sites" and keep the browser on "do not track" so normal sites can have ads but sources that are not trusted and the external sites they communicate to are blocked. (seeing an ad from a trusted source is fine but random ones are to be assumed virus laced.)

[@donaldmickunas8552]

Hey Chris, 8 hours and your video is still up. You fooled the algorithm. Maybe…LOL. Nice video. Take care and MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!! It’s the season despite the commercialism.

[@patricknelson]

What’s annoying is that I still pay for subs to certain agencies (WaPo, NYT and The Mercury in San Jose) and The Mercury was *so bad* even after paying, I just cancelled. Their site was still super unusable, especially on iPad. Even sometimes NYT/WaPo have annoying banners that overlay the content when you’ve paid. 🙄 Stuff like this is still useful in these situations (especially uBlock when you can pick/elide certain annoying elements).

[@francoisdubois80]

Thanks for posting this, Patrick. Democracy dies in darkness and if journalist can't earn a living, I worry what will come of the pursuit of truth.

[@wikingagresor]

@@francoisdubois80 most smart journalists migrate to substack as an independent content creators with patronage model.

[@teekay_1]

@@francoisdubois80 If Democracy dies in the darkness, based on the Washington Post's treatment of "the truth", Democracy already died in roughly 2008.

[@MrCREWCRUSHIN95]

@@francoisdubois80 NYT and WaPo don't do journalism. They are just house organs for the DNC.

[@loganki5zyw]

great video once again. thanks

[@ginooliva5280]

Hi Chris, thanks for the video. I have a question for you, what is the app you use to show only your body without distorsion? thanks a lot! Gino

[@SNAPxBOT]

Awesome, got it to work on Android, both bypass and clickbait remover 👍

[@batboy49]

LOL I just moved to KC MO so far love it here.

[@fqbfav_]

Hello Chris Can I know the type of OS you're using

[@JessicaFEREM]

I use Ublock filters to remove clickbait from youtube. I made my own custom filter

[@Blyyyth]

Brillant video, Chris. Works brillantly too, Can you do a video on KZbin improver - maybe upload it to your website? Been loving it, amazing YT tool.

[@hbarudi]

Yes we need something like this, I usually stay away from such "gotta join the club" websites.

[@FQ8]

AMAZING...THANK YOU!

[@lectricfence1]

Evil laughter! Thanks Chris.

[@bakakafka4428]

Santa beard is coming along nicely 😁

[@LethalSwizzle]

which distro are you using in this video? also thank you !!

[@BindasBadshah]

Although, I haven't tried - this is a very unique method. Will try soon, Thank you

[@ravindersembi3955]

thanks so much!

[@miriamramstudio3982]

Great video. Thanks

[@kshitizbhushan6920]

Thank you so much🤟

[@fsdfgasgfisd]

Thanks for the video, As a investor. I get pay-walled every day.

[@rcarlin99]

this is hilarious! Thanks Chris

[@GTAbestplayer123]

Thanks! It worked I am now able to access the billboard charts without paying for Billboard Pro crap.

[@mikemiller7946]

Adskipers are nice for when you want to just watch a show without getting pills and politics pushed on you. These look useful as well.

[@EmilKarloOLIakaKAN]

A Fan.Tastic video again Chris..we will follow you :)

[@rezaas4128]

Thanks sir! That is work!!!

[@MusicLibrary09]

Thanks Chris - A must have extension for avid readers. Using Brave.

[@stephensaines7100]

Brave promises a lot, but only delivers a part of what's promised, and then does nefarious things with your ID.

[@Casper-bj6po]

Thank you man,

[@ashwinkumar530]

Will this work for Amazon or tendency cloud?

[@QuimChaos]

EFF Privacy Badger is one of my essentials

[@Kingleer69]

Any workaround for accessing articles behind Substack paywalls?

[@sayli5892]

Thank you 🤝 and subscribed 🙂

[@farqhart9642]

Another thing that can work is to use the Brave browser and in Settings, under Shields, turn on Block Scripts. Then when your regular browser runs into a paywall, copy the URL into Brave and read on. Doesn't work with everything but can get by a number of paywalls.

[@zetomaz]

You have also an extension called "Behind the Overlay"

[@CookbookAdventures]

Thank you sir.

[@TheOatmealEater]

Hi Chris, This is a great video! Thanks for all the info! Can you do a video that shows what to do with the "fix NYTimes" src? I see the src/js/background.js, but have no idea how to import it.

[@s16100]

your awesome, thank you

[@po1ntu]

Thx bro

[@acronym476]

Still works! Awesome. And for Firefox, it's as easy as downloading the extension.

[@user-rn6hg2hb2e]

What about membership only reading? For cnbc I can’t seems to read the article by using any cookie remover 😢😢 do you have any ideas?

[@MrNoBSgiven]

Brilliant. Thx.

[@AntonShmerkin]

Hey, this extention stopped working on PC (fine on Android, tho), do you know anything about that by any chance?

[@TheRealPaulRR]

Thank you

[@travisleabeck2572]

what about pop up paywalls that happen on sites with videos or study/research sites?

[@serviciomailling]

None of then is able to bypass the WSJ paywall... Do you know any other way?

[@NickDrinksWater]

Sometimes blocking the specific elements doesn't work on all sites, it only loads part of the content so I cant see much more even with the paywall removed. Disabling javascript or using reader mode usually works the best for me

[@edconcilio1628]

LOVE IT!

[@trapie_]

So would that also work for Fox sports when watching a game or ESPN+

[@christianzerbin186]

perfect ! Since Adblocker etc is just not working anymore .....

[@jamestiller]

can you do a bypass paywall in a docker.... say on UNRAID to do your total network rather than per device ?

[@robincherian8725]

is there any way to bypass paywall on the Ipad ?

[@peterschmidt9942]

Awesome. Would there happen to be one for Firefox???

[@kr6to409]

The evil laugh at the start lmao 😭😭

[@ditchcomfort]

Are there any similar on macOS?

[@johnmitchell9705]

I would like a remove all shorts in youtube.

[@wyfyj]

Love how it's my hometowns news paper

[@michaelnyffeler9966]

Usually I skip these webpages, and when I really want to read it I just disable java script, and once the page has loaded, I enable it again.

[@ChrisSmith-rm6xl]

I have two browsers in two VMs. #1 has everything locked down (including everything off by default in noscript) and I allow extra permissions on selected websites. #2 has everything wide open, I block permissions on selected websites, and everything is cleared with bleachbit when I am done. #1 is for the sites I use all the time. #2 is used when searching for info or looking at anything that might trigger ads ("I see you just purchased a new lawn mower. Here are 10,000 lawn mower ads." "I see you are getting thousands of lawn mover ads. Here are 100,000 ads for other lawn care products.") Works great.

[@stephensaines7100]

I do similar, not least because some extensions work far better on, say, FF, and others not so well on, say, Chrome. I still run the basics on Chrome, (Ad Blocker, etc) but run the more nefarious ones on FF. URLs and more can be shuttled back and forth between the two open browsers.

[@ImNotaRussianBot]

What is that cookie remover bookmark that you have? I'm guessing that it's a Chrome Extension?