How to get past a soft paywall

[Mosby]

I wonder if this works.

Link to tweet

[usonian]

1. Media won't play for me. Thanks to great extensions I loaded, no doubt.

Try the Swiss Army Knife of paywall bypassers.
https://bypasspaywallreader.com/

You can also just copy the paywalled URL and then go to archive.ph, archive.md and others of the same name,

Plug in the URL to the "My URL is Alive" box, and get the archived info, sans paywall.

I also clear cookies regularly (they count visits in cookies) and use a Firefox Extension "Bypass Paywalls Clean", though I never really know when it's working, if I have enabled it. (no, it's not currently enabled here)

ALSO!!!

If you can disble javascript for a site, a WHOLE LOT of nags and blocks go away (depends on your browser and extensions)

AND

Safari "Reader" view rockets past a lot of bullshit. (mac only)

Firefox "print" (i.e. to PDF) cleans up a ton, and has a "simplified" checkbox that cleans up even more.

I tried "Readability" extensions, but never liked the page rendering.
This may change in the future.

I think you get the message that I hate paywalls.
ublock-origin extension is essential, or its equivalent on your browser, just for sanity and basic readability less the horrible ads.

[rog]

2. Or use Paywallbuster (link) ...

https://paywallbuster.com/