Yeah 12ft doenst seem to work on any sites anymore. Does anyone have any alternatives that work? I’m already familiar with the airplane mode trick but that’s not always fit for purpose.

  • Euphoma@lemmy.mlEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    Yeah, I haven’t seen a paywall in years with javascript disabled by default.

    • sheogorath@lemmy.world
      34·
      1 year ago

      Some websites circumvent this by only having one paragraph of the story loaded if you turn off JavaScript.

      • lud@lemm.ee
        9·
        1 year ago

        The economist is a bad example lol.

        Their site loads the content before it locks it down. So you can just reload the side and press reading mode before it removes it again.

        • JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world
          1·
          1 year ago

          If true, it’s all but impossible to actually do this on a normal-speed connection. I had the impression they stopped this method a while ago.

          • lud@lemm.ee
            1·
            1 year ago

            Worked fine on a 200 Mbit/s connection yesterday at least.

            I can try a gigabit or even 2 gigabit connection next week.

            The developer tab in browsers also has a way to throttle the connection if you want.

            I use Firefox btw.

      • mateomaui@reddthat.comEnglish
        51·
        1 year ago

        I’m going to get fired at for saying this, but websites like that are why I keep Brave around as a last resort news backup. Its reader mode didn’t get past FT, but easily did so for the Economist.

        (I don’t need education about Brave, but readers can lodge their complaints and do the token rants right here 👇)