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12ft.io (paywall article unlocker site) has been banned by Vercel (twitter.com)

submitted 10 months ago by mastermind@lemm.ee to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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[-] PeachMan@lemmy.world 98 points 10 months ago

Time for 13ft.io

[-] PinkPanther@sh.itjust.works 19 points 10 months ago

This is brilliant! Soon, we might have 14ft.io as well.

[-] VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf 10 points 10 months ago

I'm gonna hold out for 69ft.io

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[-] ArtikBanana@lemmy.dbzer0.com 95 points 10 months ago

Bypass Paywalls extension for Firefox.
Works better and for more sites in my experience.

[-] VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf 21 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

How do I install it on Firefox android, though?

My phone won't open xpi files and the only solutions I've been able to find is either create a html file in the same folder, which I don't know how to do on android, or download and install an extension which is ALSO only available as an xpi 🤦

[-] mister_newbie@sh.itjust.works 19 points 10 months ago

I believe you have to use nightly. Try this https://ghacks.net/2020/10/01/you-can-now-install-any-add-on-in-firefox-nightly-for-android-but-it-is-complicated/

[-] Throbbing_Banjo@midwest.social 3 points 10 months ago

That worked! Awesome, thanks, I tried a few other methods last week with no luck

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[-] bernieecclestoned@sh.itjust.works 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Import custom filter

Bypass Paywalls Clean

I think it's this one

https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-clean-filters

[-] 1984@beehaw.org 6 points 10 months ago

Try custom collections feature:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-use-collections-addonsmozillaorg

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[-] ArtikBanana@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 10 months ago

Well I use Fennec for Android from F-Droid, which has the option of using custom collections for addons.
I don't think it's possible yet on "normal" Firefox other than Nightly.

[-] VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf 3 points 10 months ago

Yeah, on the advice of someone else itt, I switched to Nightly and that worked 🙂

[-] jadelord@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 10 months ago

You could instead use the Web Archives extension. Works for most common paywalls.

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[-] dmtalon@infosec.pub 80 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It has seemed to work on less and less sites for me recently, to the point that I do not visited it as often as I used to.

But that tweet does sound like pretty bad news...

[-] DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de 31 points 10 months ago

It never ever seemed to work for me.

[-] noodlejetski@lemm.ee 21 points 10 months ago

by the time it got popular, it was already not working with multiple big sources.

[-] cheerjoy@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

The only time I ever used it, they told me they chose not to support that site

[-] nomadic@lemmy.one 45 points 10 months ago

https://archive.md/ gets around way more paywalls. Highly recommend it.

[-] nicman24@kbin.social 6 points 10 months ago

disabling js does more

[-] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 33 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

12ft.io was performative useless garbage anyway, if any site can just ask your paywalling bypass site to not bypass their paywall, what is the point of your site

[-] TheGreenGolem@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months ago

Exactly. As soon as they bent over to NYT, I stopped using them.

[-] empireOfLove@lemmy.one 24 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It stopped working on any of the sites I ever bothered to use it on anyway- most of them wisened up to the crawler bypass and simply made a 2 sentence tagline visible to crawlers that hit the SEO terms, with everything else hidden. Soooo nothing of value lost and Capital comes to claim its pie once again.

[-] tun@lemm.ee 16 points 10 months ago

I used to use 12ft.io whenever I needed to read a paywalled article.

Is the "Bypass paywall clean" extension better than 12ft.io?

[-] Otome-chan@kbin.social 22 points 10 months ago

I use bypass paywalls clean and never see a paywall. so... yes.

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[-] hedgehog@ttrpg.network 11 points 10 months ago

Some extra context / clarification from the thread re Vercel: they did warn him starting two weeks ago. They’ve stated he has a line open with customer support to get his other projects restored but that hasn’t happened yet.

[-] lukas@lemmy.haigner.me 6 points 10 months ago

I think that Vercel wants to drop them as a customer entirely. Vercel could've suspended the services related to 12ft.io, but Vercel chose to nuke their account from orbit. I'm unsure why Vercel suspended their domains tho. That's just asking for trouble with ICANN.

[-] Resolute3542@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago

Out of curiosity, how is it an issue with ICANN? I know they can complain to them, but what category will this fall under?

[-] lukas@lemmy.haigner.me 2 points 10 months ago

Depends on whether Vercel refuses to give them the domain transfer code.

[-] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

Technically, if one were to disable the JS used for said paywall on a site, they would never see it again. I haven't personally done this but has anyone tried?

[-] Anders429@programming.dev 25 points 10 months ago

Most sites load no content at all if JS is disabled.

[-] Baleine@jlai.lu 7 points 10 months ago

On a majority of sites all of the page's content will be present at least for SSO. And you have the added bonus that they don't ask for cookies etc...

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[-] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 10 months ago

If the website developer is worth their salt, the article contents won't be delivered from the web server until the reader has been authorized. So it doesn't matter how much JS code you disable.

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