Repository seems to be gone:<p><a href="https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean/" rel="nofollow">https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean...</a><p>Visiting the user profile says it has been blocked:<p><a href="https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/" rel="nofollow">https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/</a>
Seems like Gitlab seems to be even more ridiculous with their responses to large businesses and potentially dubious copyright claims than GitHub is. It's not the only time this month I've seen them take down repositories related to projects that some large company wanted removed despite it not necessarily being illegal in any way.
Thanks to the Streisand Effect, I've installed this. Seems to work pretty well on the few sites I've tried. Hopefully the maintainer can find a new home and let people know on Twitter.<p><a href="https://twitter.com/Magnolia1234B" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/Magnolia1234B</a>
This extension works remarkably well. But it requires frequent updates to stay working as sites change. I sure hope there's some statement on what's up soon.
Archived copy that's newer than others mentioned:<p><a href="https://archive.softwareheritage.org/browse/origin/directory/?origin_url=https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean.git" rel="nofollow">https://archive.softwareheritage.org/browse/origin/directory...</a><p><pre><code> Tip revision: 1c8f71997c1fb3b3f60957514ec2bce1591a1bfc authored by magnolia1234 on 01 April 2024, 07:35:12 UTC
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also the Firefox-specific repo: <a href="https://archive.softwareheritage.org/browse/origin/directory/?origin_url=https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean.git" rel="nofollow">https://archive.softwareheritage.org/browse/origin/directory...</a><p>also the bpc-uploads (XPI, CRX): <a href="https://archive.softwareheritage.org/browse/origin/directory/?origin_url=https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bpc-uploads.git" rel="nofollow">https://archive.softwareheritage.org/browse/origin/directory...</a>
Do bypasses like this, which I assume just do things like deleting "uncloseable" client-side modals and spoofing UA/referrer headers, count as copy-protection circumvention technology under the DMCA?
Per magnolia's Twitter:<p>magnolia1234_bpc
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Update: tomorrow a new Firefox-release v3.6.4.0 (signed = security check) !
Manual update required with upload on X (new version will update automatically)<p>For now no more public source code or request issues (use DM on X)
<a href="https://twitter.com/Magnolia1234B/status/1779050596181438791" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/Magnolia1234B/status/1779050596181438791</a><p>WeTransfer already expired (should last 7 days), but new upload here::
<a href="https://t.co/8TADPNhiYW" rel="nofollow">https://t.co/8TADPNhiYW</a>
I have a six day old copy of the repository at '<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cS0uXgXdBjkI1ExmUr4ma23FGCwNGf_j/view?usp=sharing" rel="nofollow">https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cS0uXgXdBjkI1ExmUr4ma23FGCw...</a>' and '<a href="https://ibiza.seedhost.eu/smugchicken/filebrowser/api/public/dl/EkNGLyBs/git/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean.tar.zst" rel="nofollow">https://ibiza.seedhost.eu/smugchicken/filebrowser/api/public...</a>'.<p>git log:<p>commit 1ec176a328c072114148b9359de4927ca4a1a095 (HEAD -> master)
Author: magnolia1234 <7676006-magnolia1234@users.noreply.gitlab.com>
Date: Sat Apr 6 07:23:50 2024 +0200<p><pre><code> Add Nordwest Zeitung
Fix Capital.fr (videos)</code></pre>
Apparently this page works! You can download latest version from here:
<a href="https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bpc-uploads/" rel="nofollow">https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bpc-uploads/</a><p>EDIT: magnet link with all btc-uploads content magnet:?xt=urn:btih:7839e845f7965bed1035dc5d4635811d1ede73d2&dn=magnolia1234-bypass-paywalls-uploads-master
The last couple of versions I tried to download gave TROJAN warnings from MS Defender. I had created an issue on the project notifying the developer, and I understood he was changing things to not give a "false positive". Perhaps GitLab didn't think they were false positives?
The archive linked in the developer's Twitter profile (<a href="https://twitter.com/Magnolia1234B" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/Magnolia1234B</a>) lists a new GitHub repo: <a href="https://github.com/bpc-clone/bpc_updates/">https://github.com/bpc-clone/bpc_updates/</a><p>Download latest release from here: <a href="https://github.com/bpc-clone/bpc_updates/releases/tag/latest">https://github.com/bpc-clone/bpc_updates/releases/tag/latest</a><p>It should auto-update (as long as the new GitHub repo isn't taken down...)
Why was this hosted on gitlab.com ? If you're not on github, the discoverablity is pretty low. You are not self hosting. There is no upside for a project like this to be on gitlab.com. If you're already taking the hit of not being mainstream, why not self host in a sane country ?
Use DIllo, Lynx or Links on the URL's. If that fails, head to gemini://gemi.dev, the section News Waffle, and paste your own link. Use Lagrange, Gplaces or whatever Gemini client you like.
It's hard to know how up to date this is but:<p><a href="https://github.com/eugenesvk/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean">https://github.com/eugenesvk/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean</a><p>(It does seem to be more up-to-date than other mirrors I've found)<p>Edit: It's about 300 commits old.<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240410093750/https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20240410093750/https://gitlab.co...</a>
I happen to have downloaded the master branch at 9am this morning. Here's a torrent: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:92042e65d1b38cd5d97c29baa4d0c9e2af46f355&dn=bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean-master.zip
The easiest way to bypass paywalls is to just disable JavaScript for the site. It works pretty much everywhere I've tried it except for the WSJ, which I suspect this extension doesn't work for either.<p>Edit: or, maybe it does. I see WSJ.com in the config, with a referrer as drugereport and user agent as Google not to get around it.
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Update: tomorrow a new Firefox-release v3.6.4.0 (signed = security check) !
Manual update required with upload on X (new version will update automatically)<p>For now no more public source code or request issues (use DM on X)
<a href="https://twitter.com/Magnolia1234B/status/1779050596181438791" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/Magnolia1234B/status/1779050596181438791</a><p>WeTransfer already expired (should last 7 days), but new upload here:
<a href="https://t.co/8TADPNhiYW" rel="nofollow">https://t.co/8TADPNhiYW</a>
What's the relation between the Gitlab repository and the Github one? <a href="https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome">https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome</a>
Now I wish I had bookmarked the distributed (peer to peer?) github replacement I’ve seen trend on HN a couple of times. It seems like a good place to host something like this. Anyone remember which tool I’m talking about?
There's also a version still in the Firefox catalog (the official one has been banned from there too): --link removed, it was a fake, the one I referred to is gone too :( --<p>This is a help in particular for mobile firefox because they refuse to let us sideload addons.
Edit: * Has been taken offline now. *<p>They didn't purge the xpi download repository, so you can still download the latest XPI package signed by Mozilla:<p><a href="https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bpc-uploads/-/raw/master/bypass_paywalls_clean-latest.xpi" rel="nofollow">https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bpc-uploads/-/raw/master/byp...</a><p>There are other xpi packages available in the same repo:<p><a href="https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bpc-uploads/" rel="nofollow">https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bpc-uploads/</a>