I have very limited experience with 12ft ladder, I tried it a couple times and never worked for the articles I wanted to read.

Archive.today has a very different way to bypass paywalls that makes it more effective: while 12ft ladder tries to pass as Google’s crawler to see the article, Archive.today makes use of paying accounts credentials plus a botnet to avoid being blocked: gyrovague.com/…/archive-today-on-the-trail-of-the…