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Free Paywall Bypass Firefox or Chrome Add-Ons (The Age/SMH/The Australian/WSJ) and More

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Free Paywall Bypass Firefox or Chrome Add-Ons (The Age/SMH/The Australian/WSJ) and More
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Lhvn on 02/11/2017 - 08:35 addons.mozilla.org (16120 clicks)
Last edited 02/11/2017 - 10:51 by 1 other user

Came across this add-on which helps me to bypass most of Paywall news since the incognito mode does not work for me anymore. Here are the a list of sites it can bypass from the add-on description:

The Age
The Australian
Baltimore Sun
Barron's
Crain's Chicago Business
Chicago Tribune
Daily Press
The Economist
Financial Times
Glassdoor
Haaretz
Hartford Courant
Harvard Business Review
Het Financieele Dagblad
Inc.com
Le Temps
Los Angeles Times
Medscape
MIT Technology Review
Nikkei Asian Review
NRC
The Courier Mail
The Morning Call
The Nation
The New York Times
The New Yorker
OrlandoSentinel
Quora
SunSentinel
The Seattle Times
The Sydney Morning Herald
The Telegraph
The Washington Post
The Wall Street Journal

  • It is recommended to use this add-on along with the adblocker 'uBlock Origin'
  • If WSJ stops working, goto options, uncheck WSJ, hit save, then re-check it, and hit save.

Bypass WSJ paywall was the original intention of this add-on.
Edit: It also works for other Chromium browsers (requires manual installation though) such as Chrome, Opera, etc. @ BypassPaywalls, thank BlueMM for this information.

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  • starspawn on 02/11/2017 - 12:45

    Working great so far! Cheers OP

  • Ozymandias on 02/11/2017 - 13:21
    +4

    Is no-one else made a touch uncomfortable by this? You're avoiding paying for a product which, while not quite the same as nicking a newspaper from Woolies, is pretty close to it. I'd want to be paid if I was a journalist writing the articles and the only way that'll happen is through paid subscriptions or advertisements (and I'd be very surprised if anyone here didn't have Adblock on).

    • havebeerbelywillsumo on 02/11/2017 - 13:53
      +5

      You've voiced my thoughts……….somebody's gotta pay these guys and gals wages or else all you'll end up with is unverifiable news from bloggers etc. The fact that journalism seems to be dying anyway is irelevant, why hasten the demise.

      As for *wants to access every website" permission…errr, no thanks.

      • Luc on 05/11/2017 - 10:19
        +3

        Same here. We're subscribers to Fairfax and the Guardian and the New York Times and because you need to have an insight into how the other side thinks we also have the Australian delivered on weekends. Don't think I could give Rupert much more money than that though.

        I realise I'd be in the minority here(or elsewhere)by paying for my news but while we can afford it we'll keep supporting the journalists who produce it.

    • Scab on 02/11/2017 - 14:21
      -1

      Is no-one else made a touch uncomfortable by this?

      No, just you.

    • pcox on 02/11/2017 - 14:29
      +2

      ethically, I probably wouldn't bother, paywalls just demotivate me to visit their sites.

      Since Fairfax and news corp did their subscription thing, I'm less inclined to browse there. For one there are free alternatives such as the government funded ABC news website. That and I hate every random business wants you to register your cat's name, date of birth, financial details and email address so they can clog up your email account with stuff you don't want.

      The main incentive for signing up for a website is forums one can participate in, such as this one. But the age, herald sun and the guardian are increasingly overrun by partisan political trolls.

      I still buy The Age print edition once a week but only for the green guide.

    • PJC on 02/11/2017 - 14:34

      I am entirelt comfortable by this. I haven't purchased a newspaper for years.

    • finger on 02/11/2017 - 16:23

      We all decended from convicts, we're just living up to our ancestory.

      Tbh i just let news.com.au rot my brain. Every provider has their own propaganda to push.

    • payton on 09/11/2017 - 01:11

      I'd want to be paid if I was a journalist writing the articles

      The same journos who peddle their biased opinion inside 'news' articles?
      The days of most journalists striving for heroic journalistic integrity are long gone

  • Phoebus on 02/11/2017 - 13:31
    +1

    Wow, thanks OP.
    Free access to The Courier Mail and some other less prestigious rags

  • gym on 02/11/2017 - 14:19

    I managed to install the extension on Google Chrome on a Windows PC. I have tried using the FT and Economist pages and both I keep getting the "please subscribe as you have used up your article limit for the week"

    Does anyone have any suggestions on what I should be checking / changes to make it work? I've tried direct links for their website, or article links from facebook.

    Thank you in advance!

  • naru6705 on 02/11/2017 - 16:50
    +1

    Not working for me, tried on AFR :(

    • X3 on 07/11/2017 - 07:27

      There are other ways of getting AFR for free. Like clicking on the 'X' before the page fully loads. Boom.

  • John Kimble on 02/11/2017 - 18:45
    +1

    I just block the www.smh.com.au cookie in Chrome settings: chrome://settings/content/cookies

    No private mode required

  • trishmapow on 02/11/2017 - 19:39
    +4

    Even easier: just put outline.com/ before the URL, strips the page into a reader-like view as well.

    • Kikiriki on 02/11/2017 - 20:01

      Wow, that really works even on The Australian. Thanks!

    • PJC on 02/11/2017 - 21:10

      I just tried that on The Times and it didn't work.

  • cryptos on 02/11/2017 - 21:12

    Tampermonkey + userscripts for bypass, same for dominos coupons

    • Legoman on 02/11/2017 - 21:27

      Is Tampermonkey the same as Greasemonkey?

      • cryptos on 02/11/2017 - 22:14

        I believe so, I'm on Firefox Quantum 57… so Tampermonkey works on the newer addon framework, lets you install scripts from greasy fork, userscripts and openuserjs

  • racheleg on 02/11/2017 - 22:11

    to get this on macos + chrome I downloaded the file as is without following instructions or unzipping and dragged it into extensions and it installed. tested and worked on the australian

  • Robin2012 on 02/11/2017 - 22:50

    Awesome

  • punkfans on 02/11/2017 - 22:57

    I thought the Chrome version has always been free, no? Been using it for ages.

  • srhardy on 03/11/2017 - 07:57

    How to install for Opera.

    Goto https://bypasspaywalls.weebly.com/ and download
    https://bypasspaywalls.weebly.com/uploads/4/1/4/8/41489305/b…
    rename to .ZIP and unzip the file

    Open Opera, go to extensions and hit developer mode and select 'load unpacked extentions' and point to the unziped file

    It will now load, turn off developer mode

    Bingo…. you can now surf

  • El Grande on 03/11/2017 - 17:15

    Is there an Adblock equivalent for Android. Tired of ads on the phone making me avoid the browser.

    • hvn on 04/11/2017 - 10:41
      +1

      I'm using the Ublock origin Firefox add-on which works pretty well now.

  • davidg444 on 03/11/2017 - 17:57
    -2

    It is really disappointing that an app like this appears on Ozbargain which is usually good for legitimate deals.

    Even though I know how to get around paywalls, and sure, this app may make it even easier, I also appreciate that journalists are working hard to deliver great news and Fairfax (SMH, TheAge etc.), in particular, has been letting go heaps of great journalists because the internet allows free access to their work and has disrupted their classifieds business. So I gave up the habit of looking at Fairfax for free and I keep a cheap Fairfax digital subscription going.

    The more people that use these kinds of apps, the more fine broadsheet news outlets will die and we will be left with "news" from Facebook. Supporting online news is about sustainability of real journalism. If proprietary news outlets don't die, paywall exploits, like this app, will send their digital subscription models to the UK Financial Times model which requires a pay for any, including a one-off, view. Tough on the news reading public but easier to code.

    I am not saying you should pay for occasional viewing of news from these news outlets, and I think this is what the Fairfax paywall, unlike UK FT, tries to allow which gives the vulnerability for apps like this to exploit. But I think if you are a regular reader of one of the online proprietary broadsheets then you should sign up to pay for a digital subscription and support the ecosystem, or do your main news reading elsewhere.

    You will feel a lot better about your free reading if you pay for at least one broadsheet subscription. From my perspective, I am only happy to pay for you to read Fairfax online if you consider this and how cheap a digital subscription can be. Fair?

  • Bumhole on 04/11/2017 - 19:59

    Anyone know a paywall bypass to read Australian Finanical Review (AFR) for Firefox?

    Thanks

    • hvn on 05/11/2017 - 15:35

      I'm using the AFR Paywall Blocker Firefox add-on now.

    • X3 on 07/11/2017 - 07:31

      Click on article.
      Click X before page fully loads.
      Bathe in the glory of a free article.

  • burningrage on 01/04/2018 - 21:12

    outline.com workaround suddenly doesn't work for Herald Sun / The Australian. It worked on 31/03/2018.

  • HakTor on 12/07/2018 - 02:46

    Another good anti-PayWall extension. You'll have to manually load it into chrome as the link to chrome appstore doesn't work.

    https://github.com/nextgens/anti-paywall

    • King Tightarse on 24/08/2018 - 20:38

      Looks like this actually supports the Herald sun.
      What are the dangers with installing this extension?

  • LittleMiss on 28/09/2018 - 22:22

    FYI The Australian has been moved from the list the add-on is advertising

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