bypass-paywalls-firefox-clea VS I-Still-Dont-Care-About-Cookies

Another article from the Wall Street Journal. How to get rid of the paywall? This extension works (there is a Chrome version too):

https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clea...

In the case of WSJ, these two little things will bypass the paywall:

1) use "https://www.drudgereport.com/" as the Referer for "www.wsj.com"

2) block the cookies

I'm using a proxy server that allows me to do this so I don't need the extension.

This extension is asking for a lot of permissions it shouldn't ask for

If you want an alternative that only requests permissions for sites with paywalls, this one is better: https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clea...

Firefox with strict Enhanced Tracking Protection.

uBlock Origin with all available filter lists enabled (except the one for Mobile pages, if you're on dekstop).

https://github.com/OhMyGuus/I-Still-Dont-Care-About-Cookies to reject all tracking consent requests.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account... for subdomains you want to log into but still want to access the main and other domains without being connected. For instance, I have it set always open mail.google.com in the Work container so that I can log into Gmail but still search google.com, navigate google.com/maps (etc) outside the work account.

Then, install https://github.com/Cookie-AutoDelete/Cookie-AutoDelete and set it to delete all data from all domains expect the ones you want to stay logged into (Google for instance… but only inside the Work container mentioned above). Then, all websites data (including cookies) will be auto-deleted a few seconds after your close all tabs from that domain. You have to enable the auto-cleaning and support for containers.

You can tweak a few more things but that should be enough.

I also recommend the awesome https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clea... add-on but only for users who support some media financially. It's fine to workaround paywalls (such a bad system) but good journalists still needs to be paid somehow.

Funny, I use the "I still don't care about cookies" extension (https://github.com/OhMyGuus/I-Still-Dont-Care-About-Cookies) right now to automatically accept the cookie banners. They're literally one of the most annoying things that has happened in the web's history

https://github.com/OhMyGuus/I-Still-Dont-Care-About-Cookies does reject non-technical cookies – as much as it can – but https://github.com/Cookie-AutoDelete/Cookie-AutoDelete will do the rest.

I much prefer https://github.com/OhMyGuus/I-Still-Dont-Care-About-Cookies (far more reliable in my experience)

Random aside: this extension had absolutely the worst internals of any I've ever looked at. Love the functionality, but really wish I didn't see the spaghetti behind the illusion (source files below). It feels like approaching it as a text classification problem might produce a clean general solution

https://github.com/OhMyGuus/I-Still-Dont-Care-About-Cookies/...

https://github.com/OhMyGuus/I-Still-Dont-Care-About-Cookies/...

I'll suggest I Still Don't Care About Cookies, since the original is yet another one of those extensions that got sold to a for-profit company with dubious intent. Avast, in this case. https://github.com/OhMyGuus/I-Still-Dont-Care-About-Cookies

How safe is this extension https://github.com/OhMyGuus/I-Still-Dont-Care-About-Cookies (fork of the "I Don't Care About Cookies" extension bought by Avast)? And what is the difference between using one of the extensions mentioned above and adding the filter https://www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu/abp/ in UBlock Origin? How effective is this filter compared to the extension?

I use "I still don't care about cookies": https://github.com/OhMyGuus/I-Still-Dont-Care-About-Cookies

Rejects/Hides/Accepts depending on the situation. Not ideal, but hides a lot of these messages.

Which was bought by Avast, so lots of people switched to the forked open version [1] (thank you GPL).

[1] https://github.com/OhMyGuus/I-Still-Dont-Care-About-Cookies

From https://github.com/OhMyGuus/I-Still-Dont-Care-About-Cookies a spinoff since the original extension got bought out:

> In most cases, the add-on just blocks or hides cookie related pop-ups. When it's needed for the website to work properly, it will automatically accept the cookie policy for you (sometimes it will accept all and sometimes only necessary cookie categories, depending on what's easier to do). It doesn't delete cookies.