Is there a story on your "favorite" news site, but you're out of your 2 free articles a month? Well, never fear! There's a website for that.
Archive dot ph will break pretty much any paywall. Even those with "hard" paywalls. There are some it won't break, but there are very few. So give it a try.
@LiberalLibrarian ::frolics happily with new knowledge::
@LiberalLibrarian Thanks for telling us about Archive dot ph. I've often used outline dot com, but an increasing number of websites have figured out how to render it useless.
@sufisamwise From what I've seen, Archive keeps up with news sites' counter measures.
@LiberalLibrarian well, having just tested it out, it definitely works very well. One paywall that outline could never break was for the NY Times. Archive just powered right on through to the article I wanted to see. Thanks for this, I'm going to share it with friends!
@sufisamwise You're welcome!
@LiberalLibrarian You are and remain the best. Thanks!
@LiberalLibrarian great tip!
@LiberalLibrarian What do you do? Type it in after the paywall hits or before? Do you type it as "archive.ph? I dont understand
@Gardenthymeherbs If you use Chrome, the easiest way is to install the Chrome extension. Then you just click on the extension when you are on a page you want to read. Otherwise, copy the web address, open archive ph, and paste it in the text box.
Here's a geeky question. Where is ".ph" at, geography-wise? (e.g., .es is EspaΓ±a, .ch is Switzerland I think - confederation helvetica, .ca is Canada...)
@Vanitas The Philippines.
.ph is the country code top level domain (ccTLD) for the Philippines...but those don't really mean much anymore, as countries sell domains in their ccTLDs for profit
the best example of this is the ccTLD for the tiny island nation of Tuvalu...which is .tv
and as far as I can tell, archive dot ph is hosted in Russia...
Thanks. I appreciate it when my laziness is occasionally indulged π
@LiberalLibrarian In addition, web.archive dot org will work in many instances.
I have found the 12 foot ladder to be less useful.
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@LiberalLibrarian i think journalists & papers should get paid so i get the reason for paywalls.
the ones i'd break aren't real news sources but propaganda. but then there's nothing they produce that i want to read....