It says "Why do paywalls exist", of course to elicit payment for content, that's obvious. But what is less obvious is that they exist because we're centralizing a lot of information in a few places, and these sites require a lot of funding to operate.<p>In the age of dirt cheap cloud hosting we still depend on these huge sites for our content. I know it sounds like a massive simplification, and I don't claim to have the details on how to improve the situation, but I think we need more decentralized content creation.<p>Often when I hit a paywall i will simply Google the topic and sure enough there is an independent blog with the same story. That blog costs a fraction to run compared to the big news site I first landed on.<p>Let's spread the information out more.
I can say from personal experience that the extension used to work almost perfectly up until recently. Paywalled sites have started to catch on and are starting to place their articles on entirely different pages than the "preview" page so there's nothing to "bypass".
It's a great plugin and I use it a lot. But it's very hard to install. Mozilla goes out of their way to keep it out of the store and on Android you can't even sideload it :(
Does anyone know what if anything is substantively different between the original bypass paywalls[1] and bypass paywalls clean? The implication, obviously, is that the original is unclean.<p>[1]<a href="https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome">https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome</a>
or use same paywalls filter list for adblockers:
<a href="https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-clean-filters" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-clean-filter...</a>
Finally I'll be able to read posts on HN!<p>I know it's "against the rules" or "uninteresting" or whatever to comment about this sort of thing on HN posts, but I'm getting real tired of 3/4 of the HN posts being paid bullshit I'm not allowed to read. Even the archived links people post in the comments are inaccessible because CloudFlare.<p>I fail to see how paid articles adhere to the HN spirit of "interesting discussions" or whatever the exact rule is. These paid articles are more detrimental to "interest" than angry political yelling.