Why YSK: Information should be free and open for all

Copy and paste the article URL into https://archive.is/ and view an archived version, thus bypassing the paywall

  • dryguy@kbin.social
    7·
    2 years ago

    A lot of paywalls disappear when you turn off javascript. I use a plugin that adds a button to quickly toggle javascript for specific web pages. It works for a large percentage of paywalled articles. On the few paywalled sites where I actually use javascript, it is easy to just turn it back on again when needed. The plugin I use is JavaScript Switcher, but there are others out there.

    • milkpiss
      8·
      2 years ago

      uBlock Origin can do this too, there’s a button that looks something like </> that will disable JS

      • dryguy@kbin.social
        2·
        2 years ago

        I did not know about reader mode. It seems that it is unavailable for some websites, so it can still be useful to switch off JavaScript in those cases.