A self hosted alternative to 12ft.io. Bypasses paywalls with a proxy ladder and removes CORS headers from any URL. Spoofs the Googlebot user agent.
Prepend 12ft.io/ to the URL webpage, and we'll try our best to remove the popups, ads, and other visual distractions.
Turns out most of the visual distractions on webpages are loaded after the page renders via javascript. All we do is disable the javascript of the site. This obviously doesn't work for all websites, but it works for a surprisingly large proportion of them. This is generally the case because most sites want to be indexed by Google and other search engines which have historically not run the javascript. Give it a shot on your favorite website to see how clean a JS-free version of the website is.
All of the paywall removers in one place. Simply enter the URL of the article and click the archive buttons to remove any paywall.
This is a simple self hosted server that has a simple but powerful interface to block ads, paywalls, and other nonsense. Specially for sites like medium, new york times which have paid articles that you normally cannot read. Now I do want you to support the creators you benefit from but if you just wanna see one single article and move on with your day then this might be helpful.
It pretends to be GoogleBot (Google's web crawler) and gets the same content that google will get. Google gets the whole page so that the content of the article can be indexed properly and this takes advantage of that.