And DO NOT DEFINITELY search Internet Archive for the first version of the article!
I have a JavaScript bookmark that you click from any site that’ll automatically pull up the latest archived version. Super handy.
javascript:window.location.href = "https://web.archive.org/web/" + window.location.href;They have their own browser extension that does that, plus gives you an “archive now” button, and some other stuff I don’t use.
Hasn’t worked on most sites in a long time. The obscuring is now done on the server side so the text never gets to the browser. Otherwise it used to be easy to just use the developer console or uBlock to just remove the components that concealed the text or prevent the browser refreshing to prevent the concealing.
Just because it bothered me
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How preprendious of you.
Firefox (or other browsers idk) with reading mode works 90% of the time.
I’ve found more and more that sites are blocking it… But it still works a lot of the time. Maybe like 50/50 for me.
Was scary to install that extension but now I can confirm it works as intended
Is there any way to install this on Android?Should have read the page first. There are very simple instructions for installing on Android.
It’s not piracy in any way shape or form. If they sent the document to your computer then you have the document, reading that document and saving it elsewhere are not crimes and never can be, because the only way the Internet works is by transmitting the document to you where your computer must store it in some way.
Except that is not how it works and courts have in the past ruled for the website and against people who took “secret” information out of web responses that were “not supposed to be displayed” in the browser.
Name the cases.
Weird, I’ve read the opposite. I’ve heard courts have ruled that data returned by servers is public, even if they’re obscured in the front end
No you’re most likely talking about computer access, not piracy. And please do link the ones you’re talking about.
Sadly 12ft.io has been taken offline
There is always https://archive.org/ or https://archive.ph/ for example
Yeah this is really old and out of date
Disabling Javascript with ublock origin works most of time for me.
I love when professors send you a list of sites you should stay away from lest you’ll get an illegitimate copy of the textbook. I love it even more when professors just don’t care about the optics and straight up email the whole class a link to libgen. But there was one professor at my uni that outdid all of them. He just took it upon himself to write a textbook for every course on the entire math curriculum and sold them for like $3-5 depending on the size of the book.
I definitely wouldn’t use reader mode even after the paywall comes up. Don’t ever do that.
and DO NOT DEFINITELY pay for journalist’s work, because he certainly do not need to pay taxes, rent and will happily write articles for you free of charge and paywall is just to make you mad
may be your moral concern would have more echo on another communitie
Also, do NOT use the Firefox’s Reader View.
LibreWolf also has the Reader View, also do not use that.
Although LibreWolf doesn’t state that in their TOS, unlike Firefox.
I literally won’t read articles if they won’t let me use reader view. It’s always trash news sites anyway so I’m not missing anything
none of these worked for me on NYT, reader mode also did not work. seems sites have gotten around these tricks
Thease tricks depend on sending the full article, then obscuring it with CSS or JavaScript. Lots of places now just won’t send the full text until you pay. So these tricks won’t work.
How is it I never thought to use the print pdf or copy paste trick? Would have saved me a bunch of struggling prior to finding the paywall removers.
Gonna go out on a limb and say that 9 times out of 10 if this works, turning off JS will also work.
To which I’d then suggest just getting a browser extension like uMatrix to set up whitelisting for JS since it’s a big ol’ security hole anyways. Kill two birds with one stone.
