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Bypass Paywalls Clean for Firefox

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

Republic.ru

Spain

ABC - El Mundo - El País

Sweden

Aftonbladet - Dagens Nyheter

Switzerland

Neue Zürcher Zeitung

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

L'Orient-Le Jour

Latin America

Argentina

Clarín - La Nación

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

Mexico News Daily

Peru

El Comercio - Gestión

*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:

  1. Install the add-on Cookie Remover.
  2. 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.

  1. Visit an article on the site you want to bypass the paywall for and copy the article title.
  2. Open up a new incognito window (Ctrl+Shift+P) and paste the article title into Google.
  3. Click on the same article from the Google search results page. Or you can:
  4. Disable javascript on the website by clicking the button right icon </> on the uBlock Origin panel.
  5. 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

Changelog-releases

License

Bypass Paywalls Clean is MIT-licensed.