2mo ago

News publishers take paywall-blocker 12ft.io offline

The News/Media Alliance says it will take action against similar tools in the future.

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They call it illegal just because they can't make money.
- Multiple rimea. Illegal! Illegal!!!
  It literally just uses a back door they deliberately left open because otherwise other corporate shitmonkeys won't give them free advertising
Nooo
Any alternatives? Lately I just send links to ChatGPT and ask for detailed summaries
- Archive.is is pretty good. Not 100% but usually works
- Generally, finding the article on the exact same thing at NPR.
  
  Boy do I have some bad news for you.
  Congress rescinds $9 billion meant for foreign aid, NPR and PBS
  https://www.npr.org/2025/07/18/nx-s1-5469912/npr-congress-rescission-funding-trump
- Reader mode in Firefox desktop bypasses quite a bit. It's to help handicapped readers with navigating pages, so it's evaded a lot of takedown attempts so far.
  
  Same with Vivaldi.

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