Submitted 8 months ago by 3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.com to technology@lemmy.world
I see 12ft.io is down and has been for a day or 2. Any alternatives that work as well (tried a few over the years). I have no interest in removing loads of paywalls just the odd thing or 2 now and again
Where do I get my [pay]wall-climbing ladders now?
I have asked - no suggestions as of yet…
I wonder what would happen if search engines started massively downgrading results that were behind a pay wall? So that paid content got basically no traffic from search engines?
at one time they did - but then paid search results came along…
This article says it did it by disguising itself as a web crawler. So can I just set my user agent to googlebot and paywalls will disappear?
How do you do that? (ELI5, please)
There is a selfhosted tools called 13ft which does exactly that. But in my experience, there are paywalls that it doesn’t succeed to get around but 12ft.io could.
I asked for exactly this reason… 13ft was deffo not a whole foot better
Yup - some will…not many any more though!
Sounds like we need a 14 foot ladder now
It’s not just down, it’s gone:
yqccv9v3li8o@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
There is an extension around all the paywalls that 12ft was able to and some more. It’s banned in both chrome addon store and firefox addon store gitflic.ru/…/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean
3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.com 8 months ago
Installed, works fine. Thanks!