They do so SEO doesn't suffer. Crawlers still need to be able to "see" the content. Also, for simple stuff like this I think even "Reader mode" on Firefox does the very same.
Crawlers are served the full content, they are recognized by their user agent. The devs of this website took a shortcut to creating a paywall, it has nothing to do with crawlers.
Yes, most these article paywalls do not show the full content (there still are a few out there though using a solution just like this one shown). This was a cherry picked example, but the video isn't really showing you how to bypass News sites, it's showing you how to use AI for a coding assistant.
you want to read people's work for free, im sure you're the type of poeple who never worked in his life and dont realize that journalism needs to eat too
Claud is cool, but I'm just using the Ghostery extension for such things. It will get rid of many other annoyances too, like ads, trackers, consent popups and other garbage.
@@g0t4 ublock origin can also already do that for you, it actually already works on the site you demoed it on you just have to select the filter and cookies annoyances lists i think
Sometimes when I try to watch a movie from 'alternative' sources, those websites on chrome don't let me click anywhere without redirecting me but brave makes it so smooth@@g0t4
thank you for sharing, now poor students like me can access tests taking strategies websites. THanks for the share, love you. You make high quality video
Actually it took some time to find a site which really loads all content and just blures it. Most of the sites don't load it at all, maybe only a first paragraph
@@dra6o0n Depends on their solution of detecting if you're a subscriber. There could be a requirement to register a user on site and the property of subscriber=true/false comes straight from database that's attached to the user object.
Nah, it’s just a lazy paywall. You can tell if a search engine’s crawler is asking for an article (by checking the user agent, normally) and just skip the paywall/send the whole article.
Given the amount of context and its speed, this is fking impressive. I think future cs students are gonna have a much easier time in school but fked the moment they graduate
If the website sends you all the data and the only thing stopping you is a client-side window, it's their fault for people reading the data sent to them without paying.
@@g0t4 this what called nepotism in my country Indonesia it was 3 of main pillar of gov reformation to reject Corruption, Collusion, and Nepotism. aaaand it's somehow getting there... almost..... almost.....
A lot of websites have started not rendering the full articles behind the paywall popup to combat things like this. You can remove the pop up, but only the first paragraph or so will be available
that's why if you're going to implement such feature in your app, better to load the rest of the content after the payment was done. I saw something similar being done on medium
just use no-script extension and enable on site and it will work on this case.. No need for AI for this.. even if you have inspector open, you can just delete the html node.. Also the AI did not bypass the paywall by it self so the title should be "using AI to generate scripts to remove modal"
Of course there are a hundred ways to approach this, the point was to see if it's possible to bypass with very little guidance. Perhaps it could bypass with even less guidance... 🤷♂️
@@ThePriscillaPan uBlock Origin? It has worked on 100% paywalls I have used, but was unaware there was walls it didnt work on. This trick in the video is handy to know.
Nice. I’ve also asked Claude to write a quick script to downld this yt video. Just so that I don’t see ads and this creator doesn’t get paid. Works amazingly well. Thanks!
If you do that, you've accomplished exactly what this video was intended to do... get you to start exploring the many different ways AI can help assist in a variety of tasks... it also displays more toned down restrictions compared to GPT (which damn near complains about everything now)
@@Jandoesrun Python is all you need for like 99% of jobs. Languages typically aren't feature dependent (for most things). Tip: Tell Claude or GPT what you need, if it doesn't work, paste them the error log, and tell them to fix their crappy work, and they'll try again... sometimes this process needs to be repeated 5-6 times. (tell it to use the youtube-dl package as a base)
That is a challenge with getting help on web content... see if you can remove some big elements like embedded images, scripts, maybe even some inline css stylesheets depending on your use case. Keep what you need and toss the rest.
This would be a cool extension but wont' there be any issues when it comes to security? Especially if you're injecting some code within the console tab.
Yes indeed, that's why I think it's best as a tool to help people that are knowledgeable enough to know what it is suggesting and to review it first. Many directions to head after that... i.e. approving changes to a page that then get stuffed into a Tampermonkey (or similar) script... or another direction is to find a way to make key info about the page avail to the LLM as part of the prompt to describe the page contents (high level, or all the html with larger context models) Basically, I would like an assistant that can see what I am doing in any program and at my request, get help w/o explaining my situation to a chatbot
Just subscribed. I love this type of content. Can you explore more claude AI and python likepower point or some word editing on ms. Word or other local computer stuff? Thanks
Word and/or PowerPoint would be interesting... I tried Office Copilot Pro and was underwhelmed, to say the least... what kinda integration would you like to see these?
@@g0t4 surprisingly yes! i used to like tenkeyless keyboards but i got to try many compact keyboards and i like the simpleness of them! if i need specific keys, i set up my stream deck for any apps that need numpad keys or a key that isnt on my keyboard
"Mine"... that is what RUclips suggested as a response, lol (oh heavens, my job is gonna be gone to AI any day now) This keyboard is the Razer Huntsman v2 Analog (optical switches)... I got it about two years ago and ❤️ it... I'm using it exclusively on my Mac even though it has a Windows key/layout. I prefer the modifier layout from Windows (esp when using RDP to a Windows machine) Also, highly recommend Das Keyboard (that was my first serious mechanical keyboard) What do you use?
@@g0t4im also using a razer keyboard, specifically the Razer Huntsman Mini with purple optical switches, it's a 60% keyboard and i love it, razer really does have some quality keyboards i must admit
@@noobsaibot2255 did it say it can’t help you with that? I should do a video of this with Gemini… IIRC Gemini has a massive context length which should make it easier to pass the entire page
First, epoch times is cancer. Second, the power of knowing what to look for, know the term to say to Claude Third, Sonnet is awesome Bonus: great content!
I would be skeptical but who knows, possibly... I think I'm going to make some general purpose videos to explain to people how to take apart a web page... use the inspector, etc... a simple skill to have that allows you to fix all sorts of issues... if the stuff runs in your browser, it's one's right to control how and what renders IMO
I imagine they don't let you load the video until you are logged in, it would be shocking if not... that said, search for mp4 or other movie file types in devtools and find out.. sometimes the video files are linked but hidden... PSA to anyone with private videos, if you leave the links in the html (or otherwise)... you might as well just show the video
Alright. Thanks for your honor. But now I'm going to see what i can do. I'm going to try to make a tamper monkey extension that does this. Maybe it will work.
@@blinkdejavu5273 llama 3.1’s 128k context theoretically would let you pass along much of the page though I have had issues with using it with ollama and large contexts. Also want some mechanism to strip out noise… CSS, JavaScript… perhaps even setup tool use to let it query whatever it thinks it needs based on your initial prompt?
If I recall correctly, Firefox's "reading mode" kinda does this. The downside is the site no longer stays the same. It's both fascinating and sad to see this, especially with AI engines like perplexity around
I imagine someone has a decent browser extension that grabs context and lets you ask ?s and manipulate pages... probably to automatically create tampermonkey scripts by just saying "fix xyz"
@@g0t4I would recommend reading directly the SCOTUS opinion, or at least the official summary ("syllabus," which is on the first few pages of the opinion PDF), instead of relying on any secondary news source. It's empowering to read primary source material, and you can even feed it to the LLM to summarize or analyze the case for you!
My purpose was to illustrate what is possible, to get people to think about implications... I have mad respect for people that produce great content online... if they aren't reimbursed somehow then they cease to exist and that would be a net loss.
damn. never tried this or even thought of it, even though I'm a programmer. I would think that they don't load all the text for a paywall, but guess not. I pay like $50 to multiple news agencies for their articles. still going to continue my subscription though, because they deserve to be paid for their work
I believe WSJ doesn't load text now, or not all of it... I think they're catching on... please keep paying for the stuff you enjoy so it can continue to exist!
Only works if they are dumb enough to load the full page. But they learned and often you only get relevant snippets, just enough for SEO. Which is fine I guess people need to get paid.
Absolutely, people need to get paid... that said if they don't offer a reasonable mechanism to be reimbursed (i.e. abusive ads)... then they should be allowed to wither away
Absolutely, the fastest way for me would be different... I wanted to present the angle that someone with no knowledge of web dev could easily figure this out and just run JS until it works... I'm sure I over instructed Claude here whereas I could've asked Claude to tell me how to do it too (i.e. to open inspector, run JS, etc)
@@g0t4 I still thing it’s simpler for someone without any dev skills to right click the modal background > inspect element , right click > delete element, repeat for the overlay. But I guess what wouldn’t make for a unique approach, the goal being to make a video that gets views 🤑
@@devklepacki Yeah, if you’re going to be going to that site a lot, and that site doesn’t also use IP limiting, and it shows the entire article contents in the layout and doesn’t truncate if, and you don’t mind fixing the JS whenever the html changes, and setting this up for every site like this you use, Lots of ands there, but it’s plausible
That’s why the paywalled pages should not have the content blurred on the client side -.- no need for claude, but nice demonstration
They do so SEO doesn't suffer. Crawlers still need to be able to "see" the content. Also, for simple stuff like this I think even "Reader mode" on Firefox does the very same.
Crawlers are served the full content, they are recognized by their user agent.
The devs of this website took a shortcut to creating a paywall, it has nothing to do with crawlers.
I’m not an expert but I wouldn’t expose paying content even to crawlers, because one can fake it easily… 🤔
@@fusseldieb I have made scrapers before and the site can check the user-agent for crawlers, and many do.
Yes, most these article paywalls do not show the full content (there still are a few out there though using a solution just like this one shown). This was a cherry picked example, but the video isn't really showing you how to bypass News sites, it's showing you how to use AI for a coding assistant.
so quick to find the right classes
yeah it was almost too impressive, I gave it such little context! that'll teach people that meaningfully name variables/classes :)
What's even more impressive is that it found the classes without the CSS attached.
Awesome, I didn't look into what I gave it for context, indeed impressive... esp given the blurred out text was css IIRC?
its always these channels that are at micro level with
I wish I could find more
This is a nice tutorial. I will try this for science papers that are locked behind paywall.
We need this...!!!
"reader mode" or any comparable mode on a browser will likely do the same.
Sci hub
Just get the DOI and find Sci Hub. I would have graduated without it.
Z-library
bro is jacked
jack is brod
@@bojciono
I hate websites like this. Just let me read my damn articles
Biggiecheese should understand what is his and what isn't, this aint communist world we live in.
i mean they gotta make money
you want to read people's work for free, im sure you're the type of poeple who never worked in his life and dont realize that journalism needs to eat too
@@yetresa 👽
@@biggiecheese5255speaking of ruclips.net/video/ZQAHh_DRmKk/видео.html
Claud is cool, but I'm just using the Ghostery extension for such things. It will get rid of many other annoyances too, like ads, trackers, consent popups and other garbage.
Brave is good at cutting out abusive/aggressive ads... the type that make it nearly impossible to read a webpage.
@@g0t4only downside: it's Brave
@@g0t4 ublock origin can also already do that for you, it actually already works on the site you demoed it on
you just have to select the filter and cookies annoyances lists i think
Sometimes when I try to watch a movie from 'alternative' sources, those websites on chrome don't let me click anywhere without redirecting me but brave makes it so smooth@@g0t4
You could write a tampermonkey script from the js which claude produced, which will remove the paywall from any website of that domain.
Amen, I hope to show adding keyboard shortcuts to websites using tampermonkey soon
Nice
thank you for sharing, now poor students like me can access tests taking strategies websites. THanks for the share, love you. You make high quality video
Actually it took some time to find a site which really loads all content and just blures it. Most of the sites don't load it at all, maybe only a first paragraph
Lucky me!
The solution for sites that don't load their content is a fake cookie to trick them to think you are a subscriber?
@@dra6o0n Depends on their solution of detecting if you're a subscriber. There could be a requirement to register a user on site and the property of subscriber=true/false comes straight from database that's attached to the user object.
It’s wild that these news sites need to send all of the article to the client, but I’m sure they need this for SEO.
Nah, it’s just a lazy paywall.
You can tell if a search engine’s crawler is asking for an article (by checking the user agent, normally) and just skip the paywall/send the whole article.
@@notactuallyarealperson2267then i would fale my user agent to a crawler , problem solved
@@notactuallyarealperson2267 in that case I can just spoof my user agent and bypass the paywall.
Wow, that's smart man!
I use assistants all the time but did not think of this, thank you!
so many unasked questions!
Wes, I have no idea who you are but this video is straight to the point, informative, and entertaining -- thanks for the dose of knowledge!
with that hairstyle i definitely expected you to pronounce it as “Klaade”
Such a short and to the point video. Thank you
Damn dude, 1.7k subs? That’s a steal, you deserve a bigger audience!
some day, when I grow up!
that's absolutely true, claude is my first choice when i encounter a problem that requires coding...
@@deepbrar1 have you tested the latest Claude updates? They should’ve called it 3.6 at least!
@@g0t4 yeah the ability to automate sounds awesome. I don't expect it to be fast and accurate right now but will try it after a few updates
Given the amount of context and its speed, this is fking impressive. I think future cs students are gonna have a much easier time in school but fked the moment they graduate
agree with the former (easier time) but not the latter (gonna be tons more to do!)
Yes thank you. Now I will respectfully tear down paywalls
If the website sends you all the data and the only thing stopping you is a client-side window, it's their fault for people reading the data sent to them without paying.
Didn’t even know this was possible or that Claude could do it hahaha! Awesome man, new subscriber ✌🏻
it's even harder to become capitalist these days LOL
Probably more difficult to be an honest capitalist these days... cronyism is thriving
@@g0t4 this what called nepotism in my country Indonesia it was 3 of main pillar of gov reformation to reject Corruption, Collusion, and Nepotism. aaaand it's somehow getting there... almost..... almost.....
nepotism and crony corruption are a huge problem, worldwide! And definitely in the US
@@RickySupriyadi 笑 笑 حَى حَى
I had no idea there was an AI chat bot called Claude, thank you 👍
A lot of websites have started not rendering the full articles behind the paywall popup to combat things like this. You can remove the pop up, but only the first paragraph or so will be available
Makes me think they want people to bypass the paywall when they do stuff like this.
Some websites disable scroll so u will have to put it back
your keyboard sounds maginificent
Every time I see such pay wall I just close the site. Or use inspect and remove it or option showing you text on te side
Why use a payall that's an overlay instead of a subscription-based account login? It's asking to be bypassed.
we’re really in the future…
This is really cool!
that's why if you're going to implement such feature in your app, better to load the rest of the content after the payment was done.
I saw something similar being done on medium
It only unlocks the top part of the content. Tried this before.
My god you're awesome! what is doing this called??
It's not everyday I Sub! You deserve my sub!
Prompt-jacking?
@@g0t4 Thank you sir! I'm new to everything.
whats your keyboard?? sounds good
Better option: get an extension that deletes stuff
very cool video very useful to the college student in me
mindblowing sir love from india
Nice. I love it.
I didn't know that Mr. Robot got a new series.
just use no-script extension and enable on site and it will work on this case.. No need for AI for this.. even if you have inspector open, you can just delete the html node.. Also the AI did not bypass the paywall by it self so the title should be "using AI to generate scripts to remove modal"
Of course there are a hundred ways to approach this, the point was to see if it's possible to bypass with very little guidance. Perhaps it could bypass with even less guidance... 🤷♂️
Okay bro, imma be your 1k subscriber
You can also do the dot at the end of com trick
The full article is not loaded though
When you try it?
Holy shit didn't ever think of this, so cool
I like to donate to sites that dont force that crap. I email forbes weekly with a new picture of a site that got my dono 😂
Dude. Stop leaking my secrets.
ublock does the same, though I am not too sure about the blurred text, whether it removes that along with the paywall.
Sadly it doesn’t
@@ThePriscillaPan uBlock Origin? It has worked on 100% paywalls I have used, but was unaware there was walls it didnt work on. This trick in the video is handy to know.
can i get the settings for your create a player.
@@blogpohst which thing? I’m drawing a blank
You could also install an ad blocker
Try CSS property display:none on the modal wrapper
try it! let me know if it figures it out
Nice. I’ve also asked Claude to write a quick script to downld this yt video. Just so that I don’t see ads and this creator doesn’t get paid. Works amazingly well. Thanks!
Just use Brave? I don't make any money on this... fine by me.
If you do that, you've accomplished exactly what this video was intended to do... get you to start exploring the many different ways AI can help assist in a variety of tasks... it also displays more toned down restrictions compared to GPT (which damn near complains about everything now)
Yeah, like the creator said, just use brave. Or Firefox with an ad blocker.
What language did you use? I asked chatgpt and it used pytube and it doesn't work at all
@@Jandoesrun Python is all you need for like 99% of jobs. Languages typically aren't feature dependent (for most things).
Tip: Tell Claude or GPT what you need, if it doesn't work, paste them the error log, and tell them to fix their crappy work, and they'll try again... sometimes this process needs to be repeated 5-6 times. (tell it to use the youtube-dl package as a base)
Interesting, but you can already do this for some sites by toggling reading mode.
what do i do if my code file is too big it says its above the limit. any fixes?
That is a challenge with getting help on web content... see if you can remove some big elements like embedded images, scripts, maybe even some inline css stylesheets depending on your use case. Keep what you need and toss the rest.
I mean it shouldnt be behind a pay wall tbf just to read someone repeating same context in between every 5 lines
and these days the titles tend to give away the story anyways
is there any way for me to access claude outside the Us or UK?
VPN?
Why? I live in Honduras 🇭🇳 and I have access to Claude. I'm not using a VPN either.
Can this work for course hero?
try it!
wow!!!! thank you for this!!!
This would be a cool extension but wont' there be any issues when it comes to security? Especially if you're injecting some code within the console tab.
Yes indeed, that's why I think it's best as a tool to help people that are knowledgeable enough to know what it is suggesting and to review it first. Many directions to head after that... i.e. approving changes to a page that then get stuffed into a Tampermonkey (or similar) script...
or another direction is to find a way to make key info about the page avail to the LLM as part of the prompt to describe the page contents (high level, or all the html with larger context models)
Basically, I would like an assistant that can see what I am doing in any program and at my request, get help w/o explaining my situation to a chatbot
Just subscribed. I love this type of content. Can you explore more claude AI and python likepower point or some word editing on ms. Word or other local computer stuff? Thanks
Just dropped ruclips.net/video/009BhOfHNf8/видео.html
Word and/or PowerPoint would be interesting... I tried Office Copilot Pro and was underwhelmed, to say the least... what kinda integration would you like to see these?
Nice haircut bro
what keyboard or switches do you have? i find it sounds great
Razer Huntsman v2 Analog (optical switch)... and I seem to get more comments about its sound that other single subject!
What do you use?
@@g0t4 it sounds great! i have over 20 keyboards haha , my main is the higround opal base 65 with silent glacier switches right now
@@elisabef phew I feel better, I only have 8 or 9 :)
Are you happy w/ the compact layout? I get so frustrated with laptop keyboards so I default to full size
@@g0t4 surprisingly yes! i used to like tenkeyless keyboards but i got to try many compact keyboards and i like the simpleness of them! if i need specific keys, i set up my stream deck for any apps that need numpad keys or a key that isnt on my keyboard
what about forums that ask for payements? is it possible too?
try it out!
Very interesting, btw what keyboard model are u using lol it sounds nice
"Mine"... that is what RUclips suggested as a response, lol (oh heavens, my job is gonna be gone to AI any day now)
This keyboard is the Razer Huntsman v2 Analog (optical switches)... I got it about two years ago and ❤️ it... I'm using it exclusively on my Mac even though it has a Windows key/layout. I prefer the modifier layout from Windows (esp when using RDP to a Windows machine)
Also, highly recommend Das Keyboard (that was my first serious mechanical keyboard)
What do you use?
@@g0t4im also using a razer keyboard, specifically the Razer Huntsman Mini with purple optical switches, it's a 60% keyboard and i love it, razer really does have some quality keyboards i must admit
Information should be free for everyone. I don’t respect who pushes paywalls and content restrictions.
248k views but only 3k subs is pretty wild
this video is inexplicably popular
Am i the only one that saw that at 1:00
what
lol, I adjusted my posture? My subconscious mind has a sense of humor...
Haha good Job :D Great one
lol tried this with gemini and it says the website has a paywall :(
@@noobsaibot2255 did it say it can’t help you with that? I should do a video of this with Gemini… IIRC Gemini has a massive context length which should make it easier to pass the entire page
@@g0t4 it said one of the reasons it cant analyze it was a paywall
Well this won’t work anymore now
Why not?
Can you make a test to block ads on Twitch? I heard that they're tough.
Brave? I am a Twitch n00b... I hate that they have autoplay on the videos on top when you hit the landing page, is that what you're referring to?
@@g0t4twich ads are served by injecting them into the video stream, nothing you can do about that
First, epoch times is cancer.
Second, the power of knowing what to look for, know the term to say to Claude
Third, Sonnet is awesome
Bonus: great content!
Epoch is a good example of a somewhat complex paywall modal/blur... seemed to be a good challenge :)
I also concur Sonnet is awesome, as is ChatGPT
Think this’ll work for substack?
I would be skeptical but who knows, possibly... I think I'm going to make some general purpose videos to explain to people how to take apart a web page... use the inspector, etc... a simple skill to have that allows you to fix all sorts of issues... if the stuff runs in your browser, it's one's right to control how and what renders IMO
Would this work for chegg 😂
try it!
Love the client side censorship, with basic knowledge you can bypass it, it's always fun to find the right class or css
amazing
Can you try bypassing Nebula they have videos that have pay walls
I imagine they don't let you load the video until you are logged in, it would be shocking if not... that said, search for mp4 or other movie file types in devtools and find out.. sometimes the video files are linked but hidden...
PSA to anyone with private videos, if you leave the links in the html (or otherwise)... you might as well just show the video
What about mobile?
Theoretically you could do the same, albeit DevTools aren't so easy to connect with.
You can just delete html elements from the console
Alright. Thanks for your honor. But now I'm going to see what i can do. I'm going to try to make a tamper monkey extension that does this. Maybe it will work.
Might be cool to have one that can access the current page and take prompts for changing anything about it
@@g0t4 yes! like having a menu pop-up that allows you to type what you want, and it edits the page accordingly. As long as your request is valid.
@@blinkdejavu5273 llama 3.1’s 128k context theoretically would let you pass along much of the page though I have had issues with using it with ollama and large contexts.
Also want some mechanism to strip out noise… CSS, JavaScript… perhaps even setup tool use to let it query whatever it thinks it needs based on your initial prompt?
If I recall correctly, Firefox's "reading mode" kinda does this. The downside is the site no longer stays the same.
It's both fascinating and sad to see this, especially with AI engines like perplexity around
@@misakianimated no longer have the beloved Ads!
AI is genius holy crap RIP future programmer jobs.........
RIP idiotic paywalls :) ... and RIP spending hours googling for answers
Would be a great browser extension
I imagine someone has a decent browser extension that grabs context and lets you ask ?s and manipulate pages... probably to automatically create tampermonkey scripts by just saying "fix xyz"
You read the epoch times regularly buddy?
They have good SCOTUS coverage, especially the minutiae that isn't politically charged...
@@g0t4I would recommend reading directly the SCOTUS opinion, or at least the official summary ("syllabus," which is on the first few pages of the opinion PDF), instead of relying on any secondary news source. It's empowering to read primary source material, and you can even feed it to the LLM to summarize or analyze the case for you!
@@wintdkyo I hadn’t considered the summaries that way… good idea. And yes, then I can avoid bias, well… maybe not training biases.
that keyboard is so satisfying, what do u use
Razer Huntsman V2 Analog, it is indeed satisfying! I also love Das Keyboards... Do you also have a mechanical keyboard?
What kind of paywall is that though? So basic to block content by a blur filter and a modal and let it go. "That'll do" no it doesn't.
I concur, I am amazed they don't try harder... TBH that page can be bypassed with Reader mode too.
for daily mail, crtl-a, ctrl-c open word, crtl-v
This video was very informative. Also I couldn’t help myself but notice that you look super cute and packing some hot muscles.
ctrl-a,ctrl-v before the paywall loads
ctrl-v? or c? what does this do!
lol didnt expect that 180 turn in the end but ok
My purpose was to illustrate what is possible, to get people to think about implications... I have mad respect for people that produce great content online... if they aren't reimbursed somehow then they cease to exist and that would be a net loss.
Its easier without ai (just one click) bcs they have just added a blur effect on the text lol
amazed they even bother with the blur :)
damn. never tried this or even thought of it, even though I'm a programmer. I would think that they don't load all the text for a paywall, but guess not. I pay like $50 to multiple news agencies for their articles. still going to continue my subscription though, because they deserve to be paid for their work
Look mom: there is an old style human… poor 😂😂😂
I believe WSJ doesn't load text now, or not all of it... I think they're catching on... please keep paying for the stuff you enjoy so it can continue to exist!
@@g0t4 most the articles are trash save your money
If u have u semd u link cna u breka it
I do but I have no idea what my username is :)
@@g0t4 freak
Lorem Impsum
What kind of dumb website makes their paywall client side? Like why???
subbed!
You can literally do the same by just editing the HTML
Only works if they are dumb enough to load the full page.
But they learned and often you only get relevant snippets, just enough for SEO.
Which is fine I guess people need to get paid.
Absolutely, people need to get paid... that said if they don't offer a reasonable mechanism to be reimbursed (i.e. abusive ads)... then they should be allowed to wither away
@g0t4 aka if I can keep my dignity, so can you.
Just a shame that this is rare nowadays...
cool stuff
Nice, but this was a really lame paywall to be honest.
Aren't they all :)
And it only took like 50 times more time than just using the DOM inspector to delete the modal and backdrop! Lol
You can put the JS code into an extension that's automatically runing js on specified websites, and you don't have to use Inspector each time.
Yes and that is not my goal here :)
Absolutely, the fastest way for me would be different... I wanted to present the angle that someone with no knowledge of web dev could easily figure this out and just run JS until it works... I'm sure I over instructed Claude here whereas I could've asked Claude to tell me how to do it too (i.e. to open inspector, run JS, etc)
@@g0t4 I still thing it’s simpler for someone without any dev skills to right click the modal background > inspect element , right click > delete element, repeat for the overlay. But I guess what wouldn’t make for a unique approach, the goal being to make a video that gets views 🤑
@@devklepacki Yeah, if you’re going to be going to that site a lot, and that site doesn’t also use IP limiting, and it shows the entire article contents in the layout and doesn’t truncate if, and you don’t mind fixing the JS whenever the html changes, and setting this up for every site like this you use,
Lots of ands there, but it’s plausible