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How To get Past A Paywall

Here are several ways to bypass paywalls on the internet when you need to. It's an article from LifeHacker.com

  1. Copy the headline and paste it in the search bar on Google. The article should appear as the first result, so just click that to read it for free.
  2. Try a Facebook redirect. Open the article you want to read and go to the address bar of your web browser. Now paste https://facebook.com/l.php?u= before the URL of the article and open the page. This’ll show you a Facebook redirect page and you can click Follow Link to open the website.
  3. Open the link in an incognito window. This method works with metered paywalls only.
  4. Disable JavaScript in your browser. You might circumvent blocks by disabling JavaScript in your browser. Note that disabling JavaScript can (and will) break most websites. But it’s worth trying if you just need to read the content of the post. A guide to disble javascript in most browsers.
  5. Edit a couple of elements on the webpage. Right-click the banner just below the last visible sentence of the article and select Inspect Element. This will open up a console where you can search for the offending elements and hide or change them. The exact element varies from site to site, but it’s often labeled display, paywall, or subscribe. Here’s a neat GIF on Reddit to show how to get it done.

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