Yeah 12ft doenst seem to work on any sites anymore. Does anyone have any alternatives that work? I’m already familiar with the airplane mode trick but that’s not always fit for purpose.
Time to dig out that 14ft ladder
This is the way. They also have adblock lists you can add directly to ublock/adguard
I use this on Firefox Mobile and desktop and it works great
I just copy the link to archive.org and read the archived page
So this doesn’t work for wallstreet Journal pages unfortunately but does work for Natgeo! Thank you!
What is 12ft?
12ft.io is a website that allows you to bypass paywalls on websites. Specifically for articles/news. The idea being “show me a 10ft wall and I’ll build a 12ft ladder.” It worked well against a lot of article and news outlet paywalls originally, but as time has gone on more and more sites are starting to show up on it as unable to bypass.
So what you’re saying is that we need 13ft.io
Go as small as possible so that our ladder only has to get slightly longer. Plus I’m petty.
Everyone besides US Americans won’t understand imperial measurements
Ah got it, thanks.
The great enshittification continues.
How is it enshittification to stop people from pirating your stuff?
These websites generally only work due to poor website coding. If they properly implemented a paywall, sites like Archive and 12ft would never work because you would actually need to pay for access.
Sites like Archive still seem to work, while 12ft returns empty pages.
I wouldn’t really consider improving their website coding so that people can’t pirate it enshittification.
Enshittification is based around a platform first creating something good for users and then making it good for suppliers and then when they are locked in, reduce quality. You aren’t locked into a news website that you aren’t even paying for, and you aren’t entitled to their products either.
Try turning off JavaScript when ur faced with an overlaying paywall
Yeah, I haven’t seen a paywall in years with javascript disabled by default.
Lots of sites just dont load anything w JS disabled. Nytimes for example
This extension works pretty well https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome
Bump for justice, ty
That’s one short ladder.