cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/21672073
You will go straight to jail 😡😡😡
Most paywalls know this and don’t load the content at all. Don’t do it because it doesn’t work
Yep. They’ve gotten smarter. Some of the plugins and tools websites use to create a paywall will actually only render part of the article to the browser before the user signs up. They used to simply mask it and you could remove the paywall via editing some CSS in the browser’s dev tools to see all of the text, but that’s not the case anymore.
Source: web dev for ~20 years.
My strategy with paywalls is to close the tab and go somewhere else. It works fine and is a great way to let the website owner this bullshit make them lose viewers and visibility.
Sure, no problem… I’ll just trigger reader mode in Firefox instead
I copy and paste the paywall link to archive.is. Most of the time they have a paywall-free backup which is readable.
Too many clicks for me.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/view-page-archive/
honestly, this is a great point in favor of arguing a switch to FF. if all the plugins that are now getting wiped from chrome move over to FF and tell users they are now availablr on FF, and users advertising just use X plugin on FF to solve glaring issues with chrome, then there is no incentive to stick with chrome anymore.
or maybe this has been the thing all along and i’m just slow 😅
