Yeah 12ft doenst seem to work on any sites anymore. Does anyone have any alternatives that work? I’m already familiar with the airplane mode trick but that’s not always fit for purpose.

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    Yeah, I haven’t seen a paywall in years with javascript disabled by default.

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      Some websites circumvent this by only having one paragraph of the story loaded if you turn off JavaScript.

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        The economist is a bad example lol.

        Their site loads the content before it locks it down. So you can just reload the side and press reading mode before it removes it again.

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        I’m going to get fired at for saying this, but websites like that are why I keep Brave around as a last resort news backup. Its reader mode didn’t get past FT, but easily did so for the Economist.

        (I don’t need education about Brave, but readers can lodge their complaints and do the token rants right here 👇)