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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
- Pull Requests
- Show your support
- License
Installation
Download and install the latest version
Or first visit the releases page.
Here you can also find a limited permissions version (custom sites not working though).
Install add-on by downloading xpi-file (assets).
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
Tech/Science
Chemical & Engineering News - Dark Reading - MIT Technology Review - Towards Data Science - Wired - Scientific American*
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 – The Advocate - The Age - The Australian - The Australian Financial Review - 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
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 Monde - Le Parisien - Les Échos* - Libération* – Science & Vie - Valeurs Actuelles
Germany/Austria
Italy
Corriere Della Sera - 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
Sweden
Switzerland
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
Haaretz.co.il - Haaretz.com - The Marker
Latin America
Argentina
Brazil
Exame – Folha de S. Paulo - O Estado de S. Paulo – O Globo – Valor Econômico*
Chile
Mexico
Peru
Encyclopedia/Book library/Knowledge base
Encyclopedia Britannica - Glassdoor - Loeb Classical Library - Quora - Scribd - Statista
*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.
- 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+N) 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 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 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).
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
- Visit the releases page.
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.