Most paywalls know this and don’t load the content at all. Don’t do it because it doesn’t work
Yep. They’ve gotten smarter. Some of the plugins and tools websites use to create a paywall will actually only render part of the article to the browser before the user signs up. They used to simply mask it and you could remove the paywall via editing some CSS in the browser’s dev tools to see all of the text, but that’s not the case anymore.
Source: web dev for ~20 years.
My strategy with paywalls is to close the tab and go somewhere else. It works fine and is a great way to let the website owner this bullshit make them lose viewers and visibility.
Appending 12ft.io is not dangerous. Prepending it however is.
Thanks for the heads up. This will make sure we never commit such criminal activity ever again.
