Need help with an extension
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Folks I downloaded bypass paywall clean d here and am trying to set it up (on android, mull). After I had to remove the old one, yknow.
I enable the debug menu, click install extension from file but then idk what I'm doing wrong. I did extract the file but nothing seems to work?
Would appreciate any help, thanks!
Solved:
My bad, just needed to download the .xpi file
On Android it's easier to just use the version in the Firefox add-on store:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bypass-paywalls-for-firefox/
In the past FF Android did not support local XPI files.
"Bypass Paywalls Clean" got a "cease and desist" of some random press site likely. They sent that to Mozilla, Mozilla took down the addon.
But this had no consequences for them, so after a long discussion another guy just stepped up and published the Addon on AMO again.
Which now seems to have been taken down too...
There is now a different version but that is 3 months old.
Local .xpi files are a very good new feature for censorship prevention.
Edit: okay LOL that user is now blocked on Gitlab .com !
But it is continued here on Github, for now...
You should be able to keep using the filters just with an adblock. Add a custom filter site and you're done.
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/04/20/mozilla-removes-bypass-paywalls-clean-extension-from-its-add-repository/
This is the site wit filters to add:
https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-clean-filters/-/raw/main/bpc-paywall-filter.txt
That list doesn't work anymore. UBO throws a network error.
There is this list, which is not the same one from BPC but has been recommended to me before.
Hmm, it seems you're right. I have the filters, but it says they haven't been updated for 44 days. I can send them to anyone interested to be added manually. Anyway, there is about half as many as in your link, so it's likely mine would be redundant.