unpaywall 
Read articles locked behind paywalls of over 40 german local newspapers.
This extension is provided for educational purposes only. I do not endorse the use of it and strongly encourage you to subscribe to your favourite newspaper and support local journalism.
Supported sites
- Berliner Morgenpost
- Hamburger Abendblatt
- Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung
- Thüringer Allgemeine
- Neue Ruhr Zeitung (NRZ)
- Westfalenpost
- Ostthüringer Zeitung
- Kölner Stadtanzeiger
- Kölnische Rundschau
- Mitteldeutsche Zeitung
- Wolfsburger Allgemeine/Aller-Zeitung
- Cellesche Zeitung
- Dresdner Neuste Nachrichten
- Göttinger Tageblatt
- Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung
- Kieler Nachrichten
- Leipziger Volkszeitung
- Lübecker Nachrichten
- Märkische Allgemeine
- Neue Presse
- Ostsee-Zeitung
- Peiner Allgemeine
- Schaumburger Nachrichten
- Allgemeine Zeitung
- Burgstädter Zeitung
- Echo Online
- Mittelhessen.de
- Giessener Anzeiger
- Hochheimer Zeitung
- Hofheimer Zeitung
- Wiesbadener Kurier
- Kreis-Anzeiger
- Lampertheimer Zeitung
- Lauterbacher Anzeiger
- Main-Spitze
- Oberhessische Zeitung
- Usinger Anzeiger
- Wormser Zeitung
- Saarbrücker Zeitung
- NahverkehrHAMBURG
Why (and how) does this work?!
Madsack (e.g. Leipziger Volkszeitung, Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung, Kieler Nachrichten)
Madsack stores the complete article in text form (i.e. without media and formatting) in the source code of the page to enable indexing of paywalled articles in search engines like Google & Co. They also indicate that their article is available for free, presumably to achieve a higher ranking. The Web extension just reads this text and replaces the preview with it.
FUNKE Mediengruppe (e.g. Hamburger Abendblatt, Berliner Morgenpost, Thüringer Allgemeine, Westfalenpost)
The CMS of the FUNKE Mediengruppe provides the complete article and deletes it afterwards. Unpaywall simply removes any scripts from the site.
VRM (e.g. Mittelhessen, Echo Online, Allgemeine Zeitung)
The CMS of the Verlagsgruppe Rhein-Main encrypts the article afterwards. They use a solution of the company LaterPay, whose encryption can be prevented by removing the configuration key used by LaterPay.
DuMont (e.g. Kölner Stadtanzeiger & Mitteldeutsche Zeitung)
DuMont stores the complete article in text form (i.e. without media and formatting) in the source code of the page to enable indexing of paywalled articles in search engines like Google & Co.
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
The FAZ has a social media section here, which is linked in their Instagram biography and shall be used to find articles they post about. Articles in this category can be unlocked by adding a ?premium at the end.
This unlock mechanism is currently disabled.
Saarbrücker Zeitung
The Saarbrücker Zeitung saves the complete article and replaces it afterwards.
This unlock mechanism is buggy, but the script providing the paywall mechanisms are blocked in the famous ad blocker uBlock Origin anyways.
NahverkehrHAMBURG
NahverkehrHAMBURG uses Steady to finance their site. All articles are available for free at release, but will be blocked with a popup after a few days. Only the view is blocked, so Unpaywall removes the element that advertises the paywall.