12ft

I saw a post in here that had a bug and wouldn’t let me respond from my phone, but…

It was talking about paywalls for news sites. And this is literally the best one i know to get passed them. Just copy and paste.

  • sab@kbin.social
    13916·
    11 months ago

    While this is great for the one-off article in publications you rarely read, also keep in mind that journalism is expensive and the reason a lot of it is getting so bad these days is that nobody pays for it. So if you have money to spare, please consider having at least one proper subscription in a quality newspaper somewhere to support the integrity of journalism. :)

    The Guardian is a good publication to consider as they don’t have a paywall to begin with. That’s a bold choice, and one I believe they should be rewarded for.

    • psyqology@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
      344·
      11 months ago

      Also keep in mind that paying for news often leaves the poorer community without information. While yes, i agree that journalists should be compensated, news organisations have become profit seeking businesses since the 70s, and not, as they should be, places of information gathering for everyone.

      A paywall prices poor people out of information. And things like this still help them.

      The guardian should be lauded for their model yes, but that is one company. They can’t write about everything.

    • orgrinrt@lemmy.worldEnglish
      181·
      11 months ago

      I was donating to the Guardian for a few years until my financial situation changed, is it much the same nowadays? It’s been a while, and in today’s world I feel like it’s much too easy to accidentally support bad actors (like if one joined or stayed in Twitter or Reddit today) just by lacking context.

      I don’t read all that much international/English news, but when I do, it seems by habit I tend to just go to the guardian. But really wouldn’t want to support questionable ethics or stances.

      • sab@kbin.social
        261·
        11 months ago

        Beyond just generally enjoying their journalism, one of the journalists covering Ukraine for the Guardian is the husband of a friend of mine. So I get to see his dedication to his work from relatively close up, and makes it at least very clear to me that they’re on a journalistic mission worth supporting.

        I think any media outlet of that size (or any size, probably) can be criticized, and some of it will be valid. But that’s just in the nature of the craft - it’s a challenging field, and it’s impossible not to make some mistakes. In my experience the Guardian remains committed to quality journalism, and they have some of the best people out there working for them.

  • sevenapples@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    56·
    11 months ago

    I use the “Bypass Paywalls Clean” extension for Firefox. I’d post a link to it on mozilla’s add-on store, but I found out they had to take it down.

    You can still install it manually by downloading the extension file.

    You can also achieve the same thing with ublock filters, instructions here (in the “How to bypass paywalled articles using uBlock Origin” section)

      • hahattproEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        Not work anymore. Some article is permanent behind paywall, and required log in to preview.

        So scribe will show partial content only as you preview.

    • TheGreenGolem@lemm.eeEnglish
      10·
      11 months ago

      They also bended over to NYT. Cowards.

      (If you start a site like this, you surely can count on that somebody will be after you. Host it in different country, pay with Bitcoin, hide your registrar data etc so they cannot sue you. If you cannot guarantee it, why start it?)

  • psyqology@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
    20·
    11 months ago

    So I have noticed that 12ft.io is having problem with newer articles. Anything posted in the last 3 or 4 days seems to not have been scraped by whatever they are using or however they are using it. I’ve also seen some people say that they’ve taken money from corporations to not scrape articles. Now I don’t know if that is true, but I will do some research and get back to this shortly.

    • Evelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      10·
      11 months ago

      Pretty sure they do take money, I’ve had some websites not work and it showed some sort of message. I forgot exactly what it said but it wasn’t an error.

    • 001100 010010@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      121·
      11 months ago

      archive.is has been down for more than a week now. archive.org doesn’t seem to work as well (at least according to my experience). 12ft wall just gets paid by some news sites to get their site excluded. Is there anything that’s still usable?

      (Edit: Turns out 1.1.1.1 has been censoring my internet. I’ll never trust them again.)

      Btw, y’all still using this community? The “official” one that migrated from reddit is at !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com and our community is bigger.

  • popemichael@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    15·
    11 months ago

    I’ve noticed that a lot of right-leaning “journalism” is free and left leaning journalism has a pay wall.

    I wonder if that has anything to do with the growth of the right.

    • SkepticElliptic@beehaw.orgEnglish
      8·
      11 months ago

      It’s actually frightening how much is spent on right wing propaganda. I know there are whole businesses dedicated to posting on social media pretending to be genuine users. The last election in Illinois they mailed out fake newspapers with all kinds of nonsense in them. They even have country music tours that go to small towns with political messaging.

    • bloodfartEnglish
      52·
      11 months ago

      The us right is the local bourgeoisie and it’s propaganda is intended for everyone so everyone doesn’t climb over the fences and eat them alive. The us “left” is the national bourgeoisie and their propaganda is directed at their members and collaborators so as to maintain unity.

    • fades@beehaw.orgEnglish
      21·
      11 months ago

      I wonder if that has anything to do with the growth of the right.

      No doubt plays a role, but I’d say it has more to do with the media’s obsession with getting paid. They are a business first and foremost, journalistic integrity be damned. They pushed stories they knew would get clicks without any regard to the facts or properly framing the issue.

      Yeah pay walls don’t help but they didn’t cause the issues we’re seeing. Those that follow the actual fake news that conservatives push weren’t reading articles anyway, the paywall wasn’t what kept them from reading and researching properly.

    • psyqology@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
      54·
      11 months ago

      I don’t ingest a lot of right wing media, but it mighg make sense because people who ingest right wing media are usually living in an echo chamber and are gullible. 🤷🏾‍♂️🤷🏾‍♂️🤷🏾‍♂️

  • volodymyr@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    11 months ago

    Freedom of information should be a human right, it allows to build consensus crucial for social cohesion. A bit like open access in academia, which is getting more traction recently. But unless this right is guaranteed stealing from authors destroys knowledge industry as such. Except that maybe it helps to transform predatory business models.

  • thorbot@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    11 months ago

    I just tried this on the first article I could click on for my local news page. It doesn’t work, just shows the article snippet like 13 times