Bypass Paywalls Clean 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-clean-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-clean-master folder anywhere on the page to import it.

Android

1. Install Yandex Browser from the Google PlayStore (Bypass Paywalls Clean 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.

Chromium browsers (Microsoft Edge/Opera/Vivaldi/Brave)

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 Clean.

Notes

• This extension works best along side the adblocker uBlock Origin.
• Do not delete extension's folder from your computer/smartphone or Bypass Paywalls Clean 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

United States of America

World news

First Things - Foreign Policy - Harper's Magazine - The American Interest - The Atlantic - The Nation - The New York Times - The New Yorker - The Washington Post - Vanity Fair

Business

American Affairs - American Banker - Barron's - Bloomberg - Business Insider - Digiday – Fortune - Harvard Business Review - Inc.com - MIT Sloan Management Review - Quartz - The Business Journals - The Wall Street Journal

Sports

The Athletic

Tech/Science

Dark Reading - MIT Technology Review - Towards Data Science - Wired - Scientific American*

Blogs

Medium (all sites) - SofRep

Local US news

Baltimore Sun - Crain's Chicago Business - Chicago Tribune - Daily Press - Hartford Courant - Los Angeles Business Journal - Los Angeles Times - Miami Herald - New York Magazine - OrlandoSentinel - Pittsburgh Post Gazette - San Diego Union Tribune - San Francisco Chronicle - SunSentinel - The Boston Globe - The Denver Post - The Mercury News - The Morning Call - The Seattle Times - The News-Gazette - The Philadelphia Inquirer - The Sacramento Bee* - Winston-Salem Journal

Australia/New Zealand

Newcastle Herald - The Advocate - The Age - The Australian - The Australian Financial Review - The Canberra Times - The Examiner* - New Zealand Herald - The Sydney Morning Herald

Canada

National Post - Le Devoir - The Toronto Star - The Globe and Mail

Europe

United Kingdom/Ireland

Financial News - Financial Times - London Review of Books - The Economist - The Irish Times* - The New Statesman - The Spectator - The Telegraph - The Times - The Times Literary Supplement

France/Wallonia

Challenges – L'Écho - Le Monde - Le Parisien - Les Échos - Libération* – Valeurs Actuelles

Germany/Austria

Handelsblatt - Kleine Zeitung

Italy

Corriere Della Sera - La Repubblica - La Stampa

Netherlands/Flanders

Algemeen Dagblad - Eindhovens Dagblad - DeMorgen - Groene Amsterdammer - NRC Handelsblad - Parool - Telegraaf - Trouw - Tubantia - Volkskrant - Vrij Nederland

Spain

El País

Sweden

Dagens Nyheter*

East Asia

Caixin Global - Nikkei Asian Review - Tech in Asia - The Diplomat - The Japan Times

India

Bloomberg Quint* - ET Prime - The Hindu

Israel

Haaretz.co.il - Haaretz.com - The Marker

Latin America

Exame – La Nación - La Tercera - Mexico News Daily – O Estado de S. Paulo – O Globo – Valor Econômico*

Encyclopedia/Book library/Knowledge base

Encyclopedia Britannica - Glassdoor - Loeb Classical Library - Quora - Scribd - Statista

*free articles only.

Sites with limited number of free articles

The free article limit can normally be bypassed by removing cookies for the site.*

1. Install the Disable Cookies extension.
2. When coming across a paywall click the cookie icon, then refresh the page.

*may not always succeed.

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.

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

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 Clean.
• 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 Clean is MIT-licensed.