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Re:How paywalled sites permit access to visitors from social... by JamieF1 on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @02:25AM (#14794597)
Because the sites that have set up the paywall will report the extension and get it taken down, happened to an extension that I made a while back that had a similar idea.
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Re:How paywalled sites permit access to visitors from social... by personjerry on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @03:55AM (#14794963)
Why is it take-down-able?
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Re:How paywalled sites permit access to visitors from social... by kahnpro on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @05:18AM (#14795256)
Because it allows people to circumvent the paywall and WSJ will complain to Google. And then because Google can take down whatever they want...
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Re:How paywalled sites permit access to visitors from social... by chii on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @06:55AM (#14795580)
Which is why you don't put your extension as s Chrome extension, but as a tamper monkey script.
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Re:How paywalled sites permit access to visitors from social... by _e on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @09:23AM (#14796303)
What is the best, in your opinion, site to find tamper/grease monkey scripts? I remember the landscape being fragmented some time ago.
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Re:How paywalled sites permit access to visitors from social... by skinnymuch on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @01:24PM (#14798340)
Yeah. Seems like when the main site went down, the scene never got things back on track with a proper aggregator or central site.
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Re:How paywalled sites permit access to visitors from social... by crtasm on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @07:16AM (#14803467)
https://greasyfork.org/ - it's been a year or so since I've made use of it but after userscripts.org became unusable this was my replacement. they made some sensible decisions about what's acceptable in a script and whitelisted external libraries: https://greasyfork.org/en/help/code-rules
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Re:How paywalled sites permit access to visitors from social... by donohoe on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @09:24AM (#14796313)
Not really. There are lots of extensions that do this:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/paywall%20remover?...

I'm sure many get taken down by request but its usually on a technicality (flimsy trademark claim) or sloppy assessment on Google's part.

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