17 KiB
Bypass Paywalls Clean for Firefox
- Installation
- List of supported websites
- Sites with limited number of free articles
- New site requests
- Add custom site
- Troubleshooting
- Changelog-releases
- License
Installation
You can install the add-on from Mozilla add-ons (AMO): Bypass Paywalls Clean
Or download and install the latest version from BitBucket
By default BPC has limited permissions, but you can opt-in to enable custom sites (and also clear cookies/block general paywall-scripts for non-listed sites).
Install add-on by downloading xpi-file.
On Android this add-on only works with Firefox 68 (Fennec); Firefox 79 (Fenix) only supports 9 add-ons (for now).
So don't update to Firefox 79 or use Firefox Nightly (and load BPC from a custom add-on collection).
List of supported websites
World news
First Things - Foreign Affairs - Foreign Policy - Harper's Magazine - Inkl - National Review - Newsweek - The American Interest - The Atlantic - The Christian Science Monitor - The Nation - The New Republic - The New York Review of Books - The New York Times - The New Yorker - The Washington Post - World Politics Review
Business
Adweek - American Affairs - American Banker - Barron's - Bloomberg - Business Insider - Digiday – Fortune - Harvard Business Review - Inc.com - MIT Sloan Management Review - Modern Healthcare - Quartz* - Seeking Alpha - Stock News - The Business Journals - The Wall Street Journal
Tech/Science
Chemical & Engineering News - Chronicle of Higher Education - Dark Reading - Discover Magazine - MIT Technology Review - National Geographic USA - Nautilus - Scientific American* - Times Higher Education - Towards Data Science - Wired
Encyclopedia/Book library/Knowledge base
BBC History Extra - Encyclopedia Britannica - Glassdoor - Loeb Classical Library - Philosophy Now - Quora - Scribd - Slader - Statista
Magazines/Blogs
Atavist Magazine - Commentary Magazine - Medium (all sites) - Rolling Stone - Slate - SofRep - The Daily Beast* - Vanity Fair - Variety
Local USA news
Baltimore Sun - Crain's Chicago Business - Chicago Tribune - Daily Press - Hartford Courant - Los Angeles Business Journal - Los Angeles Times - Miami Herald - Mountain View Voice - [New York Magazine (& Grub Street, The Cut & Vulture) - Orange County Register - Orlando Sentinel - Palo Alto Online - Pittsburgh Post Gazette - San Diego Union Tribune - San Francisco Chronicle - Star Tribune - SunSentinel - The Boston Globe - The Denver Post - The Fresno Bee - The Mercury News - The Morning Call - The Seattle Times - The News-Gazette - The Philadelphia Inquirer - The Sacramento Bee - Winston-Salem Journal
Canada
Le Devoir - National Post - The Globe and Mail - The Logic - The Toronto Star
Europe
United Kingdom/Ireland
Belfast Telegraph - Financial News - Financial Times - Irish Independent - London Review of Books - The Economist - The Irish Times - The New Statesman - The Spectator - The Telegraph - The Times - The Times Literary Supplement
France/Wallonia
Challenges – Charlie Hebdo - L'Écho - L'Opinion – La Dépêche – Le Journal du Dimanche – Le Journal du Net - Le Parisien - Le Soir - Les Échos - Libération* – Science & Vie - Sciences et Avenir - Valeurs Actuelles
Germany/Austria
Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten - Die Zeit - Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung - Handelsblatt - Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung - Kurier.at - Leipziger Volkszeitung - Neue Ruhr Zeitung - Süddeutsche Zeitung - Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung - Westfalenpost - Westfälische Rundschau - WirtschaftsWoche
Italy
Corriere Della Sera - Domani - GElocal.it - Il Fatto Quotidiano - Il Manifesto - Il Messaggero - Il Resto del Carlino - La Repubblica - La Stampa - Le Scienze - LimesOnline (it/en) - Quotidiano.net
Netherlands/Flanders
Algemeen Dagblad and regional ADR sites (grouped in options) like
BN DeStem -
Brabants Dagblad -
Eindhovens Dagblad -
Gelderlander -
PZC -
Stentor -
Tubantia
Dagblad van het Noorden -
De Morgen -
De Tijd -
Financieele Dagblad -
Follow the Money -
Groene Amsterdammer -
Humo.be -
Knack.be -
Leeuwarder Courant -
Noordhollands Dagblad -
NRC Handelsblad -
Parool -
Telegraaf -
Trouw -
Volkskrant
Russia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Australia/New Zealand
Brisbane Times - New Zealand Herald - The Age - The Australian Financial Review - The Saturday Paper - The Spectator Australia - The Sydney Morning Herald – The West Australian (+ regional) - WAtoday
> News Corp Australia (grouped in options)
Cairns Post – Geelong Advertiser - Gold Coast Bulletin – Herald Sun – Northern Territory News – The Advertiser/AdelaideNow – The Australian - The Courier-Mail – The Daily Telegraph – The Mercury Tasmania - The Weekly Times – Townsville Bulletin
> Financial
Eureka Report - Intelligent Investor
> Australian Community Media (daily, grouped in options)
Bendigo Advertiser - Central Western Daily - Daily Liberal - Illawarra Mercury - Newcastle Herald - The Advocate - The Border Mail - The Canberra Times - The Courier - The Daily Advertiser - The Examiner - The Northern Daily Leader - The Port Macquarie News - The Standard - Western Advocate
> Australian Provincial Newspapers (daily, grouped in options)
Bundaberg News Mail - Fraser Coast Chronicle - Gladstone Observer - Grafton Daily Examiner - Mackay Daily Mercury - Rockhampton Morning Bulletin - Sunshine Coast Daily - The Gympie Times - The Northern Star - The Queensland Times - Toowoomba Chronicle - Warwick Daily News
East Asia
Caixin Global - CommonWealth Magazine Taiwan - Harvard Business Review Taiwan - Nikkei Asian Review - NK News* - South China Morning Post - Tech in Asia - The Diplomat - The Japan Times
India
Bloomberg Quint* - Business Standard - LiveMint - The Hindu
Israel
Globes - Haaretz.co.il - Haaretz.com - The Marker
Lebanon
Latin America
Argentina
Brazil
Exame – Folha de S. Paulo - O Estado de S. Paulo – O Globo – Valor Econômico*
Chile
Diario Financiero - El Mercurio - El Mercurio de Valparaíso - La Segunda - La Tercera
Mexico
Peru
*free articles only.
Sites with limited number of free articles
The free article limit can normally be bypassed by removing cookies for the site.
Click on the BPC-icon and then 'clear cookies'-button in the popup.
For user with the limited permissions BPC-version this will only work for supported sites; for other sites use:
- Install the add-on Cookie Remover.
- When coming across a paywall click the cookie icon to remove the cookies then refresh the page.
If removing the cookies works you can also add the site as a custom site.
New site requests
You can submit a request for a new website here.
Please read the following instructions and share your results for a quicker process.
Remember to check the previous requests before asking for a new website.
- Visit an article on the site you want to bypass the paywall for and copy the article title.
- Open up a new incognito window (Ctrl+Shift+P) and paste the article title into Google.
- Click on the same article from the Google search results page. Or you can:
- Disable javascript on the website by clicking the button right icon </> on the uBlock Origin panel.
- Refresh the page.
Add custom site
Add your own custom site (also for testing).
Check 'Options'-link in popup-menu and go to custom sites.
- by default BPC has limited permissions, but you can opt-in to enable custom sites (and also clear cookies for non-listed sites).
Make sure the (new) site is checked under Options (or check on/off-buton). By default sites' cookies/local storage are removed after page loads (to bypass article limit).
Also you can enable Googlebot user-agent or disable Javascript for (sub)domain(s)/external sources.
Troubleshooting
- This add-on works best alongside the adblocker uBlock Origin.
- If a site doesn't work, try turning off uBlock and refreshing.
- Make sure the (new) site is checked under Options.
- You will be logged out for most of the sites you have checked.
- If you live in the EU, also consider installing the extension I don't care about cookies in order to remove cookie warnings (or add filter Easylist Cookies | I don't care about cookies custom filter to uBlock Origin).
Changelog-releases
- Visit the changelog page.
- Or check the commits.
- Download the latest version
License
Bypass Paywalls Clean is MIT-licensed.