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    2/28/2023 1:04 pm  #1

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    From: i am dumb
    Registered: 10/13/2020
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    Bypass Paywalls with article-reading plugins

    I'm using the "Read Aloud: a Text to Speech Voice Reader" for Firefox. When I get hit with a  paywall, I refresh, and before the page fully loads I click the reader.
    It grabs the whole article. You can let the reader read it, or just scroll through and read it manually-- all of the text is captured.


     

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    10/02/2024 7:47 pm  #2

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    Re: Bypass Paywalls with article-reading plugins

    Update: the NYT must have figured out that text-to-speech can bypass the paywall, because now their articles offer "Listen to this article" as a native option, and it does in fact also bypass the paywall. Apparently it is difficult to get around this, so they decided "if you can't beat em, join em"

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