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Re:Google blocked my Chrome extension so I created a website... by dewey on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @11:00AM (#32662928)
Any reason to use that one that only seems to list "Medium" as supported vs the often linked https://12ft.io (Unsure if official or inofficial extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/12ft/nmccamaemgaap...)?

Edit: Unfortunately https://12ft.io seems to be down right now, I hope it's temporary.

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Re:Google blocked my Chrome extension so I created a website... by jayass on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @11:03AM (#32662976)
If you the previous extension that was blocked https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/beat-that-wall/fhp... you can see that it has way more downloads than https://12ft.io
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Re:Google blocked my Chrome extension so I created a website... by thrdbndndn on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @11:03AM (#32662977)
I don't think it's temporary, if what the reviews say is to believe it has been dead for a while and has questionable practice to begin with.
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Re:Google blocked my Chrome extension so I created a website... by dewey on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @11:07AM (#32663058)
I don't think that extension was an official one, it was not linked from the website so the reviews / download count don't really say much.

https://web.archive.org/web/20220824175226/https://12ft.io/

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Re:Google blocked my Chrome extension so I created a website... by jayass on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @11:05AM (#32662998)
They suffer from the same problem. They can't update the extension because google changed the policies. Now any attempt to remove paywalls is not allowed
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Re:Google blocked my Chrome extension so I created a website... by jayass on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @11:02AM (#32662945)
The fact that only list medium does not mean that do not work on another sites. It should work on most sites but was mainly tested on medium.
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