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A fun way around paywalls


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2022 Nov 20, 10:24pm   200 views  3 comments

by Patrick   ➕follow (55)   💰tip   ignore  

https://12ft.io/


Show me a 10ft paywall, I’ll show you a 12ft ladder.

Bypass any paywall,

https://12ft.io/

Works with your favorite websites
FAQ
What?
Prepend 12ft.io/ to the URL of any paywalled page, and we'll try our best to remove the paywall and get you access to the article.

Why?
I believe Google Adwords killed the web. Google Adwords incentivized sites to peddle SEO optimized garbage. Sites who aren't are forced to optimize for email capture so they can market directly to you. Search results now show "news", ads, and SEO spam instead of surfacing information.

You ought to be able to search something on Google and get an answer to your question without signing up for some newsletter. This is why I created 12ft.io.

How does it work?
The idea is pretty simple, news sites want Google to index their content so it shows up in search results. So they don't show a paywall to the Google crawler. We benefit from this because the Google crawler will cache a copy of the site every time it crawls it.

All we do is show you that cached, unpaywalled version of the page.

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1   Patrick   2022 Nov 20, 10:26pm  

Example:


https://12ft.io/api/proxy?ref=&q=https%3A%2F%2Ffortune.com%2F2022%2F11%2F16%2Ftech-layoffs-human-resources-diversity-dei-teams%2F

Tech layoffs spell trouble for HR and diversity professionals | Fortune

At Lyft, which cut 13% of its workforce in early November, one employee on the diversity and inclusion team most of her department had been cut, including her. Similarly, Twitter, now owned by Elon Musk, saw its DEI team evaporate almost overnight. Twitter’s chief diversity officer Dalana Brand within hours of Musk’s acquisition, and employees that the company has since dissolved its employee resource groups.
3   whitewater   2022 Nov 21, 12:37am  

That’s the response from New York Times using iPhone shortcut.

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