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
Sounds like we need a 14 foot ladder now
12ft.io down?
Submitted 1 day ago by 3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.com to technology@lemmy.world
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NightFantom@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
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?
3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.com 1 day ago
at one time they did - but then paid search results came along…
Dave@lemmy.nz 1 day ago
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?
3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.com 1 day ago
Yup - some will…not many any more though!
TurboLag@lemmings.world 1 day ago
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.
3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.com 1 day ago
I asked for exactly this reason… 13ft was deffo not a whole foot better
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
How do you do that? (ELI5, please)
yqccv9v3li8o@lemmy.sdf.org 23 hours 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 23 hours ago
Installed, works fine. Thanks!
raman_klogius@ani.social 1 day ago
Where do I get my [pay]wall-climbing ladders now?
3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.com 1 day ago
I have asked - no suggestions as of yet…
MurrayL@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s not just down, it’s gone:
News publishers take paywall-blocker 12ft.io offline