Bypassing paywalls for online newspapers.

Please consider subscribing to news websites before you resort to bypassing paywalls. Journalism is an important part of a functioning democracy, and journalist organizations have been struggling financially for a while.

I'm not going to justify why I resort to using these tools, but I will say that I subscribe to several (New York Times, Washington Post, The Atlantic, and Vox), and that I read soooo much news in a day that it's difficult to pay for them all.

• browser extensions
  • Bypass Paywalls Clean — Chrome/Edge version, Firefox version
    • This reportedly works on Firefox Mobile!
  • Bypass Paywalls — this was the original one, but Bypass Paywalls Clean has become more popular at this point
  • Hover — Chrome/Edge/etc only
• https://12ft.io/
  • Chrome/Edge/etc extension a much better Chrome/Edge/etc extension
  • Firefox extension
• archive.is works much the same as 12ft.io (its goal is somewhat different, but the outcome is the exact same)
  • Even better is the fact that you can bookmark links through archive.is!
• alternatives to 12ft:
  • a collection of paywall-bypass bookmarklets
  • https://1ft.io/
  • RemovePaywall.com
  • Ladder, a local proxy that runs within Docker (why can't they just do it within an extension?)
  • 13ft, a local proxy that runs within Docker (why can't they just do it within an extension?)
  • FreeNews, a local proxy, written in Go (why can't they just do it within an extension?)
• (list of others)