Bypass Paywalls Clean for Chrome/Firefox

Re:Bypass Paywalls Clean for Chrome/Firefox by dmortin on Sunday June 28, 2020 @07:11AM (#23668028)

If solutions like this get traction then sites simply won't render anything client side before the paywall.

Developing sophisticated blocking tools only makes this distopian future arriving sooner.

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Re:Bypass Paywalls Clean for Chrome/Firefox by 627467 on Sunday June 28, 2020 @09:29AM (#23668568)

I think a future where bit are only sent/received on all parts terms is a fair one, not dystopian in my mind. It's just that we don't have the right technology to enable such granular decision making at micro-level.

Today businesses argue they are forced to serve multiple megabytes of extra stuff no one REALLY cares (all those trackers, etc) because anyone can just go to their site and pull "their proprietary bits". I think this is pretty dystopian already.

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Re:Bypass Paywalls Clean for Chrome/Firefox by Reason077 on Sunday June 28, 2020 @07:34AM (#23668120)

And if y'all hadn't started using ad blockers then there would be less paywalls in the first place!

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