ShareX VS bypass-paywalls-chrome

Best For Screenshots/Recording: ShareX

ShareX [1] is my other "must install" app. I never would have guessed how much my branch of engineering consists of "take a screenshot and draw lines, arrows and circles on it." Being able to customize my workflow to do all of that is really great.

[1] https://getsharex.com/

Incase you are having a hard time with sharing screenshots use this https://getsharex.com/

Oh yeah, and it's totally free.

ShareX is the tool you want. I don't know why it never gets a mention.

If only OBS was somewhat lighter, I'd have used it. You need an Intel i5 or Ryzen 1300x processor for a "minimum requirements", imagine what would it take for a decent performance!

Instead, I use another app called ShareX [1] which is much lighter on the OS and processor. It may not have all the features but you can easily create a screencast or recording session with ease.

[1]: https://github.com/ShareX/ShareX

sharex for sharing stuff/screenshots

ShareX. No macOS alternative (which I would have tried) comes close in terms of usability for uploading (parts of) screenshots automatically.

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

FWIW I am happy that magnolia1234 forked iamadamdev's repo. I wanted to report that barrons.com is not working with the original repo (https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome). But I could not. https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome/issues/... was giving the following notice.

An owner of this repository has limited the ability to open an issue to users that have contributed to this repository in the past.

barrons.com worked out of the box with the new repo (https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean).

It was MIT licensed until April 2020: https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome/commit/...

I don't know exactly when they forked, from the issue it looks like November 2020, so the portion of code that was unlicensed might just be their own contributions?

What a weird, overly-confrontational message from the fork's author! No need to call someone publishing work for free lazy, ignorant, not the sharpest tool in the shed etc.

Plus, the original repository isn't even licensed https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome . So magnolia1234 probably forked it illegally after copying the name (although it seems like iamadamdev doesn't mind too much).

If there's a basically what amounts to a harassment/spam campaign against iamadamdev on his own repo, no wonder the original author is not a fan of the drama and deletes irrelevant issues.

Article text (I use a combination of Ublock Origin and Paywall Bypass Chrome (github repo; have to manually add it to Chrome. It works on Firefox, too but you can't add custom links).

I posted the article text in a different top level comment, but I use a combination of Ublock Origin and Paywall Bypass Chrome to get around paywalls. It's a bit easier than 12ft.io and despite saying "Chrome" it also semi-works in Firefox but you don't get custom links.