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		DrDentz on May 24, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: How does archive.is bypass paywalls? It's actually the opposite, for some news sites this extension links to archive.is because that's the only known way to bypass the paywall.

nora-puchreiner on May 25, 2023 [–]

There are known ways to bypass paywall which are just impossible to implement within a browser extension while trivial on 12ft or archive. For example, to use Ukrainian residential proxy as some news websites granted free access from.

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