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README.md

Bypass Paywalls for Chrome

2019-02-06: WSJ bypass fixed!

2019-02-02: The Wall Street Journal (wsj.com) bypass is currently not working. WSJ seems to have changed their algorithm.

Installation Instructions

Google Chrome:

Download this repo as a ZIP from github.
Unzip the file and you should have a folder named bypass-paywalls-chrome-master.
In Chrome go to the extensions page (chrome://extensions)
Enable Developer Mode
Drag the bypass-paywalls-chrome-master folder anywhere on the page to import it.

Notes:

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.
This extension works best along side the adblocker uBlock Origin.

Bypass the following sites' paywalls with this extension:

Baltimore Sun (baltimoresun.com)
Barron's (barrons.com)
Bloomberg (bloomberg.com)
Crain's Chicago Business (chicagobusiness.com)
Chicago Tribune (chicagotribune.com)
Corriere Della Sera (corriere.it)
Daily Press (dailypress.com)
Dagens Nyheter (dn.se)
Denver Post (denverpost.com)
Dynamed Plus (dynamed.com)
The Economist (economist.com)
Examiner (examiner.com.au)
Financial Times (ft.com)
Foreign Policy (foreignpolicy.com)
Glassdoor (glassdoor.com)
Haaretz (haaretz.co.il / haaretz.com)
Harper's Magazine (harpers.org)
Hartford Courant (courant.com)
Harvard Business Review (hbr.org)
Inc.com (inc.com)
La Repubblica (repubblica.it)
Le Temps (letemps.ch)
Les Échos (lesechos.fr)
Libération (liberation.fr)
Los Angeles Times (latimes.com)
Medium (medium.com)
MIT Technology Review (technologyreview.com)
Nikkei Asian Review (asia.nikkei.com)
NRC (nrc.nl)
OrlandoSentinel (orlandosentinel.com)
Quora (quora.com)
SunSentinel (sun-sentinel.com)
The Advocate (theadvocate.com.au)
The Age (theage.com.au)
The Boston Globe (bostonglobe.com)
TheMarker (themarker.com)
The Mercury News (mercurynews.com)
The Morning Call (mcall.com)
The Nation (thenation.com)
The New Statesman (newstatesman.com)
The New York Times (nytimes.com)
The New Yorker (newyorker.com)
The Seattle Times (seattletimes.com)
The Spectator (spectator.co.uk)
The Sydney Morning Herald (smh.com.au)
The Washington Post (washingtonpost.com)
The Wall Street Journal (wsj.com)
Winston-Salem Journal (journalnow.com)
Wired (wired.com)

New site requests:

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

Troubleshooting

On WSJ if you are already viewing an article and click into another article and the paywall comes up, try refreshing the page (and click 🗙 to close the "Continue reading your article with a WSJ membership" popup).
For The Denver Post turn off uBlock.

License

Bypass Paywalls is MIT-licensed.