Bypass Paywalls for Chrome

• Installation instructions
• List of supported websites
• Sites with limited number of free articles
• New site requests
• Troubleshooting
• Changelog
• Pull Requests
• Show your support
• License

Installation instructions

Chrome (Windows/MacOS/Linux)

1. Download this repo as a ZIP file from GitHub.
2. Unzip the file and you should have a folder named bypass-paywalls-chrome-master.
3. Move the folder to a permanent location on your computer (do not delete the folder after installation).
4. In Chrome go to the extensions page (chrome://extensions).
5. Enable Developer Mode.
6. Drag the bypass-paywalls-chrome-master folder anywhere on the page to import it.

Android

1. Install Yandex Browser from the Google PlayStore (Bypass Paywalls doesn't work with Kiwi Browser yet).
2. Download this repo as a ZIP file from GitHub. Extract the file (do not delete the folder after installation).
3. In Yandex go to the extensions page (browser://extensions).
4. Turn on the Developer Mode by checking the box.
5. Tap Load unpacked extension.
6. Find your extension folder and pick manifest.json.

Opera/Vivaldi/Brave/Chromium browsers

1. Download the extension as a .crx file from the releases page.
2. In your browser go to the extensions page.
3. Enable Developer Mode.
4. Drag your .crx file anywhere on the page to import it.

Firefox

Visit the Firefox repository of Bypass Paywall.

Notes

• This extension works best along side the adblocker uBlock Origin.
• Do not delete extension's folder from your computer/smartphone or Bypass Paywalls will disappear at restart.
• Every time you open Chrome it may warn you about running extensions in developer mode, just click 🗙 to keep the extension enabled.
• You will be logged out for any site you have checked.

List of supported websites

Algemeen Dagblad
American Banker
Barron's
Bloomberg
Bloomberg Quint
Business Insider
Caixin Global
Chicago Tribune
Corriere Della Sera
Dagens Nyheter
Daily Press
DeMorgen
Encyclopedia Britannica
ET Prime
Financial News
Financial Times
First Things
Foreign Policy
Glassdoor
Groene Amsterdammer
Haaretz.co.il
Haaretz.com
Handelsblatt
Harper's Magazine
Hartford Courant
Harvard Business Review
Inc.com
La Nación
La Repubblica
La Tercera
Le Devoir
Le Monde
Le Parisien
Les Échos
Loeb Classical Library
London Review of Books
Los Angeles Times
Medium
MIT Sloan Management Review
MIT Technology Review
National Post
New York Magazine
New Zealand Herald
Newcastle Herald
Nikkei Asian Review
NRC Handelsblad
Parool
Quartz
Quora
San Francisco Chronicle
Scientific American
Scribd
SOFREP
Statista
Tech in Asia
Telegraaf
The Advocate
The Age
The American Interest
The Athletic
The Atlantic
The Australian Financial Review
The Australian
The Boston Globe
The Business Journals
The Canberra Times
The Denver Post
The Diplomat
The Economist
The Globe and Mail
The Hindu
The Irish Times
The Japan Times
The Marker
The Mercury News
The Nation
The New Statesman
The New York Times
The New Yorker
The Philadelphia Inquirer
The Seattle Times
The Spectator
The Sydney Morning Herald
The Telegraph
The Times Literary Supplement
The Times
The Toronto Star
The Wall Street Journal
The Washington Post
Towards Data Science
Trouw
Vanity Fair
Volkskrant
Vrij Nederland
Wired

More websites (specialized or local newspapers) are available in the custom list of the extension (select those you want to use in options).

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 extension. 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

Only large or major sites will be considered.

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 botton right icon </> on the uBlock panel.
5. Refresh the page.

If it loads without a paywall you can submit a request to add the site, otherwise my extension cannot bypass it either.

Usually premium articles cannot be bypassed as they are behind a hard paywall. Please see for previous requests before asking for a new website to be added.

Troubleshooting

• This extension works best alongside uBlock Origin.
• If a site doesn't work, try turning off uBlock and refreshing. Also try reinstalling the extension.
• Make sure the site is checked under Options (on macOS sometimes the sites are unselected).
• Make sure you're running the last version of Bypass Paywalls.
• If none of these work, you can submit an issue here.

Changelog

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 is MIT-licensed.