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README.md

Bypass Paywalls Clean for Firefox

Installation

Download and install the latest version
Here you can also find a limited permissions version (custom sites will not be working though).
Install add-on by downloading xpi-file.

List of supported websites

United States of America

World news

First Things - Foreign Policy - Harper's Magazine - National Review - The American Interest - The Atlantic - The Christian Science Monitor - The Nation - The New Republic - The New York Times - The New Yorker - The Washington Post - Vanity Fair - 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 - The Business Journals - The Wall Street Journal

Sports

The Athletic

Tech/Science

Chemical & Engineering News - Dark Reading - MIT Technology Review - Towards Data Science - Wired - Scientific American*

Encyclopedia/Book library/Knowledge base

Encyclopedia Britannica - Glassdoor - Loeb Classical Library - Philosophy Now - Quora - Scribd - Statista

Blogs

Medium (all sites) - SofRep - The Daily Beast*

Local US 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 - Orange County Register - Orlando Sentinel - Palo Alto Online - Pittsburgh Post Gazette - San Diego Union Tribune - San Francisco Chronicle - SunSentinel - The Boston Globe - The Denver Post - The Mercury News - The Morning Call - The Seattle Times - The News-Gazette - The Philadelphia Inquirer - The Sacramento Bee* - Winston-Salem Journal

Australia/New Zealand

Bendigo Advertiser - Cairns Post Central Western Daily - Daily Liberal - Gold Coast Bulletin Herald Sun Illawarra Mercury - New Zealand Herald - Newcastle Herald - Northern Territory News The Advertiser/AdelaideNow The Advocate - The Age - The Australian - The Border Mail - The Canberra Times - The Courier - The Courier-Mail The Daily Advertiser - The Daily Telegraph The Examiner - The Mercury Tasmania - The Northern Daily Leader - The Port Macquarie News - The Saturday Paper - The Spectator Australia - The Standard - The Sydney Morning Herald The Weekly Times Townsville Bulletin - WAtoday

> Financial

Eureka Report - Intelligent Investor - Switzer Report - The Australian Financial Review

Canada

National Post - Le Devoir - The Toronto Star - The Globe and Mail

Europe

United Kingdom/Ireland

Financial News - Financial Times - London Review of Books - The Athletic UK - The Economist - The Irish Times* - The New Statesman - The Spectator - The Telegraph - The Times - The Times Literary Supplement

France/Wallonia

Challenges L'Écho - L'Opinion La Dépêche Le Journal du Dimanche Le Journal du Net - Le Parisien - Les Échos - Libération* Science & Vie - Sciences et Avenir - Valeurs Actuelles

Germany/Austria

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung - Handelsblatt - Kleine Zeitung

Italy

Corriere Della Sera - Il Manifesto - Il Messaggero - La Repubblica - La Stampa - Le Scienze

Netherlands/Flanders

Algemeen Dagblad and regional ADR sites like BN DeStem - Brabants Dagblad - Eindhovens Dagblad - Gelderlander - PZC - Stentor - Tubantia
Dagblad van het Noorden - De Morgen - De Tijd - Groene Amsterdammer - Het Financieel Dagblad - Humo.be - Leeuwarder Courant - NRC Handelsblad - Parool - Telegraaf - Trouw - Volkskrant - Vrij Nederland

Spain

El Mundo - El País

Sweden

Aftonbladet - Dagens Nyheter

Switzerland

Neue Zürcher Zeitung

East Asia

Caixin Global - CommonWealth Magazine Taiwan - Harvard Business Review Taiwan - Nikkei Asian Review - Tech in Asia - The Diplomat - The Japan Times

India

Bloomberg Quint* - LiveMint - The Hindu

Israel

Globes - Haaretz.co.il - Haaretz.com - The Marker

Latin America

Argentina

Clarín - La Nación

Brazil

Exame Folha de S. Paulo - O Estado de S. Paulo O Globo Valor Econômico*

Chile

El Mercurio - 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.*

Install the Cookie Remover Add-on. Please rate it 5 stars if you find it useful.

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

*May not always succeed

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+N) 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 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 sites' cookies 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 uBlock Origin.
  • If a site doesn't work try turning off uBlock and refreshing.
  • If you live in the EU, also consider installing the extension I don't care about cookies in order to remove cookie warnings.
  • Make sure the (new) site is checked under Options.

Changelog-releases

Pull Requests

  • 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 Clean is MIT-licensed.