Use Cases/🤔How Do You Read Articles or News Behind A Paywall (7 Ways To Read Without Paying A Single Cent)? 🆓

🤔How Do You Read Articles or News Behind A Paywall (7 Ways To Read Without Paying A Single Cent)? 🆓

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9 January 2023

If you’re reading a post from an online news outlet that requires a paid subscription, you may find yourself frustrated. 

Have you ever found yourself reading an article behind a paywall, only to realize that you can't finish it unless you pay? 

This is a frustrating experience, especially when you have a busy day ahead of you and your queue of articles is sitting unfinished. 

Example sites you could be reading are:

  1. Medium
  2. Harvard Business Review
  3. The New York Times
  4. Washington Post
  5. Bloomberg
  6. National Geographic
  7. TechCrunch
  8. Business Insider
  9. Fortune
  10. Tech in Asia

Fortunately, there are a few ways that you can finish reading an article behind a paywall without forking over any cash. 

In this post, I shall cover 7 different ways of using certain websites or Chrome extensions to read articles behind a paywall.

Keep reading to learn more.

RemovePaywall.com

The way Remove Paywall operates is by looking for old versions of a website (which we normally called archived pages). 

Readers can access the article on these archived pages without having to pay or log in because they are not behind a paywall.

12ft.io

The principle is similar to RemovePaywall.com where it retrieves the unpaywalled but cached version of the webpage of an article or news article.

The concept is rather straightforward: news organisations want Google to index their material so that it appears in search results. 

So the Google crawler is not presented with a paywalled version of the article. 

The Google crawler will cache a duplicate of the site each time it visits. 

This is how 12 ft Ladder website works.

ReaderMode

This is a web app as well as Chrome extension which removes unwanted elements (pop-ups, overlays) and advertisements of a website so that you could read a webpage distraction-free.

It is a very handy extension when you want to cut off all the fluff and concentrate on your reading of an article.

Bypass Paywalls

Bypass Paywalls is a web browser extension that allows you to bypass paywalls on quite a number of  selected websites (more than 100 + popular websites) and some custom sites of your own.

However, it is not available frome the official Chrome store. It could be downloaded from from open-source Github.

So you have to manually install it in your comouter . (Instructions on Github site)

According to the author of this extension, you will get best results when use together with  uBlock Origin advertisement blocker (see below).

Bardeen

Bardeen is an automation extension which could bypass a pyawall by retrieving from public achives of the web.

Technically the archived webpage is from archives.today

This technique is very similar to the first methods described in the beginning fo this post, RemovePaywall.com and 12ft.io

uBlock Origin

uBlock is not merely an ad blocker but rather a wide-spectrum content blocker.

This extension is very effective on stopping annoying pop-ups and therefore can prevent paywall pop-ups from loading in the first place.

To benefit from uBO's increased efficiency, do not use any other content blocker at the same time. uBO will outperform the majority of the other popular ad blockers. 

Other blockers may interfere with the operation of uBO's privacy and anti-blocker features.

Unpaywall

This is a special extension which is designed to bypass the paywall of millions of peer-reviewed journals or scientific articles.

It is perfectly legal, and it works very fast and the best thing is it's FREE.

Please note that it does not help in removing the paywall of news website such as New York Times, The Washington Post, etc.

Unpaywall harvest content from 50,000 jorunals and ope-source scientific repositories from all over the world.

Therefore it is a very useful assistant for researchers and students.

Conclusion

Reading articles or news behind a paywall does not have to be a daunting task. 

With the above seven options available described above, you can easily access high-quality news articles or stories without having to pay a single cent. 

However, we only touch on methods which are either extensions or using some specific website to bypass the paywall.

There are other ways which we do not go into details. For examples, by using a VPN, use private browsing or incognito window, cookies removal, emulate it coming from Facebook, copying the article title and put it into Google search, etc.