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I love when professors send you a list of sites you should stay away from lest you’ll get an illegitimate copy of the textbook. I love it even more when professors just don’t care about the optics and straight up email the whole class a link to libgen. But there was one professor at my uni that outdid all of them. He just took it upon himself to write a textbook for every course on the entire math curriculum and sold them for like $3-5 depending on the size of the book.
I don’t do this. If I see a paywall, I don’t visit the site again.
The Verge recently went with paywalls… I just deleted the bookmark. It was never a very good site anyway. They blasted an Android phone for doing something new, and then praised Apple for doing the exact same thing. I forget what. We were calling them iVerge for a while after that. (It was not recently.) Even as an Apple guy, I could not respect that. But the content has been entertaining, so I kept going back. I definitely will not pay them for their content though.
I never really understood why they make these paywalls so badly i mean, its great for us, fuck paywalls and so, but if i wanted to hide something from someone i would not send the text to them, and then quickly put a white piece of paper over it, hoping you wouldn’t notice.
It’s so strange to me
The reason is a match between SEO and forcing users to pay. The problem is that they want crawler bots and the alike to index the page, so when you search for something mentioned in the article you can actually find it, but when you want to read it, they show you a paywall.
Because you weren’t going to pay. The people that don’t know any better/have the money to spend on a subscription would just as soon pay for the convenience of not doing everything above.
I guess that they want to be indexed by google for the full content but not to be seen by you.
The real heroes.
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.
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 better
Just because it bothered me
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Forepend.
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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
Is there any way to install this on Android?Should have read the page first. There are very simple instructions for installing on Android.
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. :)
Was scary to install that extension but now I can confirm it works as intended
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.
Sadly 12ft.io has been taken offline
There is always https://archive.org/ or https://archive.ph/ for example
Yeah this is really old and out of date
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.
No you’re most likely talking about computer access, not piracy. And please do link the ones you’re talking about.
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
Name the cases.
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.
This is my point. People don’t want to pay for any journalism, so all of it billionaire talking points and clickbait.
Disabling Javascript with ublock origin works most of time for me.
Also, do NOT use the Firefox’s Reader View.
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
LibreWolf also has the Reader View, also do not use that.
Although LibreWolf doesn’t state that in their TOS, unlike Firefox.
I definitely wouldn’t use reader mode even after the paywall comes up. Don’t ever do that.
