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Hasn’t worked on most sites in a long time. The obscuring is now done on the server side so the text never gets to the browser. Otherwise it used to be easy to just use the developer console or uBlock to just remove the components that concealed the text or prevent the browser refreshing to prevent the concealing.
I can’t recall which right now, but there are ones that manage to scrape the entire content by spoofing the Google crawler.
Since websites want to maximise their SEO, they must provide the raw content to be indexed betterOften the content is available without masking for a very short time so scrapers can access them or similar tricks to allow them access immediately after posting. But that requires that you hit the server immediately after the story is posted and there is no masking at all usually in those cases. That’s how things like archive.is get a copy for example. But none of that is client/browser side anymore, at least on the major sites. Otherwise it’s easy to defeat if the content is already provided to the browser and just masked with JavaScript or something that runs locally and can be blocked.
none of these worked for me on NYT, reader mode also did not work. seems sites have gotten around these tricks
Thease tricks depend on sending the full article, then obscuring it with CSS or JavaScript. Lots of places now just won’t send the full text until you pay. So these tricks won’t work.
Sadly 12ft.io has been taken offline
Yeah this is really old and out of date
There is always https://archive.org/ or https://archive.ph/ for example
DO NOT open a file you don’t want to use, of a given Office application, then open the file you want to use, and close the first window, because then you may accidentally be able to use Office without having a license!!! This is BAD, it should NOT be done!!
That’s bitch baby mode. Just use MASgrave to fake activation/license. No need for that silly workaround every time.
Yes, I know. However, it is still hilarious that MS let that slide through.
Just because it bothered me
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Firefox (or other browsers idk) with reading mode works 90% of the time.
I’ve found more and more that sites are blocking it… But it still works a lot of the time. Maybe like 50/50 for me.
If it doesn’t work, try going into reading mode, then reloading the page. Often times, that catches many of the problematic sites that try to block Reading Mode
Yeah that works sometimes
And DO NOT DEFINITELY search Internet Archive for the first version of the article!
DuckDuckGo bangs are great for this. Just add
!wayback(with the space) after the URL of the article you are reading, and it will search the Wayback Machine for that article.Example: If the URL for the article is
website.com/propaganda.html, change it towebsite.com/propaganda.html !waybackand press enter.This also works on Kagi for anybody else using it
Works with Kagi and Brave too!
Both of you guys are godsends. Thankyou. I never knew this
hah, TIL, thanks!
I have a JavaScript bookmark that you click from any site that’ll automatically pull up the latest archived version. Super handy.
javascript:window.location.href = "https://web.archive.org/web/" + window.location.href;They have their own browser extension that does that, plus gives you an “archive now” button, and some other stuff I don’t use.
I definitely wouldn’t use reader mode even after the paywall comes up. Don’t ever do that.
Was scary to install that extension but now I can confirm it works as intended
The best solution, imho. Been around for a long time and so notorious it got removed for DMCA violations on github and gitlab so it had to move to a service outside US copyright cabal jurisdictions.
Tried and true. :)
Crazy how to me why this is not more widely known. Best solution.
Every time it’s recommended people shit themselves over the .ru domain. I don’t think people realise just how much pirated content comes out of Russia, it’s very normal and nothing to be afraid of.
Is there any way to install this on Android?Should have read the page first. There are very simple instructions for installing on Android.
Also, do NOT use the Firefox’s Reader View.
LibreWolf also has the Reader View, also do not use that.
Although LibreWolf doesn’t state that in their TOS, unlike Firefox.
I literally won’t read articles if they won’t let me use reader view. It’s always trash news sites anyway so I’m not missing anything
and DO NOT DEFINITELY pay for journalist’s work, because he certainly do not need to pay taxes, rent and will happily write articles for you free of charge and paywall is just to make you mad
I pay for 404 media and a few others! I still use this extension for everything else
may be your moral concern would have more echo on another communitie
yeah, truth is only something those who can afford to pay should have, better that the poors get their news from Facebook posts as God intended
This is why so many people are misinformed. Good journalism is paywalled while things like Fox News, Newsmax and Sky News aren’t.
Journalists do need to get paid though, and not everyone is okay with ads. People expect too much for free.
Journalists should be funded by the public, as they perform a public service, while simultaneously they should not be required to report favorably upon the state. We just fail to do so because it’s more profitable for the old money that own the current media empires (and Larry Ellison), with the added benefit that the general public are treated like mushrooms – feed them shit and keep them in the dark.
Journalists should be funded by the public, as they perform a public service, while simultaneously they should not be required to report favorably upon the state.
And that’s the crux of the issue, isn’t it? You can’t let corpos piss all over journalism to turn it yellow, and you can’t let a state-run press dictate the citizen’s world view.
Information wants to be free, and that’s realistically the only way it can work.
Disabling Javascript with ublock origin works most of time for me.
My rule of thumb: Do not ever link to, or follow links to, or read the New York Times.
Exactly, those guys are scum. Read the Washington Post, much cooler dudes, totally not parroting billionaire talking points.
I’m sure there’s still a good American newspaper out there somewhere, but I don’t know what it is. All the familiar big ones seem to have fallen.
There aren’t any good ‘big’ ones, but local ones are often worth paying for and supporting since they actually do good journalism.
It’s not piracy in any way shape or form. If they sent the document to your computer then you have the document, reading that document and saving it elsewhere are not crimes and never can be, because the only way the Internet works is by transmitting the document to you where your computer must store it in some way.
Except that is not how it works and courts have in the past ruled for the website and against people who took “secret” information out of web responses that were “not supposed to be displayed” in the browser.
Name the cases.
Weird, I’ve read the opposite. I’ve heard courts have ruled that data returned by servers is public, even if they’re obscured in the front end
This is how I feel about ads. If I request an article or video from a website and they send it to me alongside an ad, shouldn’t I just be able to say “no thank you” to the ad and not accept it\block it. The content I asked for was willingly sent to me so it seems hard to claim that it was stolen or pirated.
Yes that’s exactly why adblockers will always be legal. You cannot be forced to run spyware on your own computer systems (unless the law changes which it might).
How is it I never thought to use the print pdf or copy paste trick? Would have saved me a bunch of struggling prior to finding the paywall removers.
