yllus/bypass-paywalls-chrome

Bypass Paywalls for Chrome

Bypass Paywalls for Chrome

Installation Instructions

Google Chrome

1. Download this repo as a ZIP file from GitHub.
2. Unzip the file and you should have a folder named bypass-paywalls-chrome-master.
3. In Chrome go to the extensions page (chrome://extensions).
4. Enable Developer Mode.
5. Drag the bypass-paywalls-chrome-master folder anywhere on the page to import it.

Notes

• Every time you open Chrome it may warn you about running extensions in developer mode, just click 🗙 to keep the extension enabled.
• You will be logged out for any site you have checked.
• This extension works best along side the adblocker uBlock Origin.

Bypass the following sites' paywalls with this extension

Algemeen Dagblad
American Banker
Baltimore Sun
Barron's
Bloomberg
Bloomberg Quint
Business Insider
Chicago Tribune
Corriere Della Sera
Crain's Chicago Business
Dagens Nyheter
Daily Press
De Groene Amsterdammer
De Volkskrant
DeMorgen
Denver Post
Dynamed Plus
Eindhovens Dagblad
Encyclopedia Britannica
Examiner
First Things
Financial News
Financial Times
Foreign Policy
Glassdoor
Haaretz.co.il
Haaretz.com
Harper's Magazine
Hartford Courant
Harvard Business Review
Inc.com
Irish Times
LA Business Journal
La Repubblica
La Tercera
Les Échos
Libération
Loeb Classical Library
Los Angeles Times
MIT Sloan Management Review
MIT Technology Review
Medium
Mexicon News Daily
NRC
New York Magazine
New Zealand Herald
Newsrep
Nikkei Asian Review
Orlando Sentinel
Parool
Quartz
Quora
San Diego Union Tribune
San Francisco Chronicle
Scientific American
Statista
SunSentinel
Telegraaf
The Advocate
The Age
The American Interest
The Atlantic
The Australian Financial Review
The Australian
The Boston Globe
The Business Journals
The Economist
The Globe and Mail
The Japan Times
The Mercury News
The Morning Call
The Nation
The New Statesman
The New York Times
The New Yorker
The News-Gazette
The Philadelphia Inquirer
The Seattle Times
The Spectator
The Sydney Morning Herald
The Telegraph
The Times
The Toronto Star
The Wall Street Journal
The Washington Post
TheMarker
Trouw
Vanity Fair
Winston-Salem Journal
Vrij Nederland
Wired
Zeit Online

Sites with limited number of free articles

The free article limit can normally be bypassed by removing cookies for the site.*

Install the Cookie Remover extension.

When coming across a paywall click the cookie icon to remove the cookies then refresh the page.

*May not always succeed

New site requests

Only large or major sites will be considered.

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+N) and paste the article title into Google.
3. Click on the same article from the Google search results page. If it loads without a paywall you can submit a request to add the site, otherwise my extension cannot bypass it either.

Usually premium articles cannot be bypassed as they are behind a hard paywall.

Troubleshooting

• This extension works best alongside uBlock Origin.
• If a site doesn't work try turning off uBlock and refreshing.
• Make sure the site is checked under Options (on macOS sometimes the sites are unselected).

Pull Requesets

• PRs are welcome.

Show your support

• I am not asking for donations or anything like that, all I ask is that you star this repo.

License

Bypass Paywalls is MIT-licensed.