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Bypass Paywalls Clean for Firefox

Installation
Update
List of supported websites
Sites with limited number of free articles
New site requests
Add custom site
Add excluded site
Troubleshooting
Changelog-releases
License

Installation

You can install the add-on from Mozilla add-ons (AMO): Bypass Paywalls Clean
Or download and install the latest xpi-version from GitLab
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).

Update

Check for updates (in about:addons) and allow permissions for newly supported sites (else no update will be installed).

Android

On Android this add-on doesn't work with latest Firefox v84 (Fenix); it only supports a number of 'recommended' add-ons (for now).
Only from Firefox v85 you can install recommended add-ons via AMO - so no more need to add these to your custom add-on collection (see below).

BPC add-on works fine in Firefox Nightly, Fennec F-Droid or IceRaven though (when you load BPC from a custom add-on collection).
For Firefox Nightly or Fennec F-Droid (based on latest Firefox for Android) you have to make your own custom add-on collection (or use another that contains BPC).
Iceraven (Fenix fork) uses: What I want on Fenix
It has a custom add-ons account: 16201230 & collection: What-I-want-on-Fenix.
In IceRaven all add-ons are shown (with search option), but In Firefox Nightly and Fennec F-Droid only the first 50 add-ons are shown.
There you can use custom add-ons account: 15546469 & collection: Fenix.

PS on Android: enabling custom sites isn't working (no optional permissions).
Then you need the 'custom' add-on version (with access to all sites): Bypass Paywalls Clean (custom)

Chrome/Chromium

Visit the Chrome repository of Bypass Paywall Clean.

List of supported websites

* free articles only.

Africa

Kenya

Daily Nation

Australia/New Zealand

Brisbane Times - Griffith Review - 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

add to custom sites for unlisted & block general paywall-script Piano

> Australian Provincial Newspapers (all, 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

opt-in to custom sites for unlisted

East Asia

Asia Times - 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 Economic Times (ET Prime) - The Hindu - The Hindu BusinessLine - Times of India

Israel

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

Lebanon

L'Orient-Le Jour

Latin America

Argentina

Ámbito - 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 Estrella 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:

Install the add-on Cookie Remover.
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.

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+P) 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 Origin 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 BPC has limited permissions, but you can opt-in to enable custom sites (and also clear cookies for non-listed sites). You can also just request permissions for the custom sites you added yourself.

Make sure the (new) site is checked under Options (or check on/off-button).
By default sites' cookies/local storage are removed after page loads (to bypass article limit).
Also you can enable Googlebot user-agent, disable Javascript for (sub)domain(s)/external sources and/or set the referer (to Facebook, Google or Twitter; ignored when Googlebot is set).

PS on Android: enabling custom sites isn't working (no optional permissions).
Then you need the 'custom' add-on version (with access to all sites): Bypass Paywalls Clean (custom)

Add excluded site

Add excluded sites/domains (for your subscriptions).
You can also exclude a specific domain which is grouped in options.

Troubleshooting

This add-on works best alongside the adblocker uBlock Origin.
Add usefull custom filter Fanboy's Enhanced Tracking List
If a site doesn't work, try turning off uBlock and refreshing.
Make sure the (new) site is checked under Options.
You will be logged out for most of the sites you have checked.
If you live in the EU, also consider installing the extension I don't care about cookies in order to remove cookie warnings (or add filter Easylist Cookies | I don't care about cookies custom filter to uBlock Origin). Some sites need to set a consent-cookie for (social) media.

Changelog-releases

License

Bypass Paywalls Clean is MIT-licensed.

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Bypass Paywalls Clean for Firefox

Installation

Update

Android

Chrome/Chromium

List of supported websites

World news

Business

Tech/Science

Encyclopedia/Book library/Knowledge base

Magazines/Blogs

Local USA news

Canada

Europe

United Kingdom/Ireland

Denmark

Finland

France/Wallonia

Germany/Austria

Italy

Netherlands/Flanders

Portugal

Russia

Slovenia

Spain

Sweden

Switzerland