HN-Paywall-Archiver
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HN-Paywall-Archiver
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Show HN: A userscript that adds archive URLs below the paywalled HN submissions
Source code: https://github.com/MostlyEmre/hn-anti-paywall
Now let me overexplain.
-Why?-
I never liked paywalled articles. I understand where they come from, but I don't like where we cross our paths.
This is why I don't use major news aggregators anymore. Instead, I spend my "catching-up-with-the-world-time" on Hacker News. However, Hacker News (HN) also has its fair-share of paywalled articles. (Around 11.6% according to my short-lived, half-assed attempt at measuring it. See my super old data https://hpa.emre.ca/ I tell the story below.)
-First try-
Around a year ago, when I ran the above experiment, my goal wasn't to run that experiment. It was during my self-teaching & career-changing process, I decided to build a React HN clone. To make it stand-out from the bunch, I added a paywall feature. It would detect paywalled articles and would add an archive URL into the metadata.
The issue with archiving is unless someone archived the link before on the {archiving-project} then the link is most likely not archived. So me sending people to those projects meant nothing. It kinda meant something for me from an ideological standpoint but I assume you are not me.
This rubbed me the wrong way. I decided to build a backend (See https://github.com/MostlyEmre/HN-Paywall-Archiver) that would scan the links and automatically to detect paywalls close to real-time and submit paywalled ones to archive.is for archival. I used Nodejs, Firebase, and React. I was -still am- really proud because I believed it was doing public good in terms of digital preservation. Only 1 person needed to run this script to benefit everyone. As an extra, I was curious on how many paywalled articles were being shared, by whom, at what time. So I also created some analytics functionality to gather the data. And later created a UI to present it.
HN-Paywall-Archiver was great but I stopped running the backend at some point. Because at that point couldn't find a way to continuously run my backend code on some platform for cheap or didn't try hard enough.
P.S. Recently I've been thinking of remaking this version with Cloudflare Workers.
-Hacker News Paywall Archiver Userscript-
After almost a year, I got into userscripts. Super great super awesome concept. People seem to hate javascript unless it is presented as a userscript. So I decided to get my hands dirty to create a simple solution that solves the paywall issue on HN without breaking any hearts.
My solution is not perfect as it had to be simple. But here's the rundown.
Pros:
- Does not beg for attention.
bypass-paywalls-chrome
- Bypass Paywalls web browser extension for Chrome and Firefox
- Bypass Paywalls repository is gone
- The existence of a new kind of magnetism has been confirmed
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Times Article
to bypass: https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome
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Sega of America CEO Shuji Utsumi on VF: “We are evaluating right now. Virtua Fighter doesn’t use so many tricks, special moves like in Street Fighter, it’s very realistic [...] How can we make it more dramatic? It’s something we’re working on.”
Install this extension to bypass them.
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Why does Denmark have three EU 'opt-outs' and what do they mean?
Sorry guys.. should've realized this was paywalled. I have the Bypass Paywalls plugin on my browser.
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Destiny's Controversial Quote on Rising prices/Economy
Edit: Here's a good paywall blocker I use. Mobile users in shambles
- HLN muurtje
- Bypass Paywalls Clean combines all soft paywall hacks into one neat package
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Show HN: Ladder, open source alternative to 12ft.io and 1ft.io
there is below extension for this purpose which I know of, I think there can be many more if we search for them
chrome and firefox extension for removing paywall: https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome
What are some alternatives?
DownloadNet - 💾 DownloadNet - All content you browse online available offline. Search through the full-text of all pages in your browser history. ⭐️ Star to support our work!
QuillBot-Premium-Crack - Unlock: Paraphrase unlimited words, 7 Writing mode , 4 Synonyms options, 6000 Summarizer word limit, 15 Sentences processed at once, Unlimited Freeze Words and phrases (101k active users' choices)
freeRep - Bypass repubblica.it and lastampa.it paywall
medium-unlimited - A browser extension to read medium.com articles for free without membership.
Archiver - a streaming interface for archive generation
bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean
SingleFile - Web Extension for saving a faithful copy of a complete web page in a single HTML file
Pi-hole - A black hole for Internet advertisements
hn-anti-paywall - A userscript for Hacker News that adds archive links under submissions that include paywalled articles.
uBlock - uBlock Origin - An efficient blocker for Chromium and Firefox. Fast and lean.
stream-detector - A Firefox addon for keeping track of manifests used by various streaming protocols and downloading media files.
slader-extension - Bypass Slader/Quizlet's limit