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   RemovePaywall▲170

   Read articles without annoying paywalls

   2022

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   Remove Paywall Chrome Extension▲86

   Never pay for articles again

   2023

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   Bypass Paywalls▲272

   A chrome extension that unlocks content

   2021

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   A bookmarklet to remove clickgates on New York Times, Medium, etc.▲71

   Recently i stumbled on too many clickgates on the Medium blog Towards Data science. Considering that most people publish to share knowledge on Medium and are driven into putting their content behind a paywall, without actually getting paid for it, including myself. I felt like Medium is running the academic publishing scheme. Get free content and get paid for it. So I decided to create a small script to bypass the paywall on Medium, it turns out it also works on other newssites. Heres the website: https://sugoidesune.github.io/readium/ For the curious I will explain the…

   2019

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   Bypass Paywall▲95

   Down with the walls

   2021

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   The Free Internet Plugin▲147

   Removes paywalled stories from Google results

   2021

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   Bypass, a chrome extension to read articles behind paywalls▲12

   2016 · chrome.google.com

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   Text Fish▲139

   Skip Paywalls, Read Peacefully

   2020

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   Brutal Reader▲98

   Strips any webpage down to just the article

   Mar 2026

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    Gift Links by beehiiv▲194

    Give your readers a peek over the paywall

    2024

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    Clear This Page▲119

    Bypass the clutter from any web article

    2019

12. 12
    Bitbounce▲263

    Email paywall

    2017

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    breeziee.com - add a paywall to any link for free▲43

    2012 · breeziee.com

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    Modern for Hacker News▲167

    A beautiful, clean, modern web UI for Hacker News

    2022

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    A Chrome extension to get around the WSJ paywall▲28

    2014 · wsjwalljump.weebly.com

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    Stop The Bullshit▲118

    Hide posts & block sites that publish fake news on Facebook

    2016

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    I built a tool to remove news articles from HN▲131

    2020 · hn.luap.info

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    Incoggo – Free Adblocker for Paywalls▲34

    2021 · incoggo.com

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    Just The Article Please▲127

    A simple article reader for the web

    Feb 2026

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    Forget▲78

    One-click history cleaner for Chrome

    2015

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    Radr▲139

    A paywall for your email

    2021

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    Post News▲95

    Everything you love about social media without the trolls

    2023

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    Sadblock▲155

    Block sad/depressing news from your social feeds

    2017

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    Add a “1” to your Hacker News URL to get fancy social previews▲119

    For example, paste this into Slack or Discord or whatever: https://news.ycombinator1.com/item?id=30179549 It works with comments, too: https://news.ycombinator1.com/item?id=30180253 Hastily-developed source: https://github.com/statico/ycombinator1.com

    2022

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