Spaywall - spay your paywall

This extension does NOT work as the user would expect it to. It will work on some level if the article is older or if the ext can find the article elsewhere on the internet. Great idea, way to think outside the box. However that is not what the expectation is. That is the source of all the poor reviews. I get it, it does work in a sort of work around kind of way, but users don't want sort of a work around where they read old articles later in the day or some such thing. Users need basically a... Show more

This paywall 'redirector' works perfectly as expected. The technique of searching and redirecting users from the original article (with a paywall) to the archive of all articles ever posted (without a paywall) for the exact same article is ingenious and actually really smart. Bypassing the paywall to deliver the same exact content without breaking terms of service. Smart. To new users reading older, negative reviews, obviously it won't work for articles posted an hour beforehand, but I've ha... Show more

100% completely useless, for me. It works in a very passive way - they amass news articles and serve you the cached copies. Unfortunately this means you can only read articles which have been out for at least a few weeks! Who only reads the news from a few weeks ago? Also, why would anyone design an extension that works this way? It's a bad idea and completely useless to 99% what most people are looking for. (Hot tip: right-click on the page's background, change 'display: flex' to 'display: ... Show more