13ft: Self-Hosted 12ft.io Alternative

SagXD@lemm.ee to Open Source@lemmy.ml – 148 points –
GitHub - wasi-master/13ft: My own custom 12ft.io replacement
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How does this, (or 12ft.io for that matter) actually work? Client-side trickery? Magic cookies? Something like adblock?

EDIT: Apparently it just blocks JS and disguises itself as an SE crawler. This still doesn't work on sites like Bloomberg, and if I understand correctly nothing can be done there.

I use the Bypass Paywalls Clean extension in Firefox to access Bloomberg, among others. I had it installed before it got taken down, so be careful where you get it from nowadays.

I've never gotten 12f to work a single time. Bypass Paywalls Clean is the only thing that has worked for me incredibly consistently

I wish I had even half the braincells required to understand the installation for this.

Just a grammatical nitpick in the readme but as a compound adjective it would be 13-foot Ladder. "That ladder is 13 feet tall" vs "That is a 13-foot tall ladder".