Israeli airstrikes on Tehran killed inmates in ‘apparent war crime’ – report
Israeli airstrikes on Tehran killed inmates in ‘apparent war crime’ – report
Human Rights Watch also finds that Iran abused survivors of June attack, which killed 80 peopleDeepa Parent (The Guardian)
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Russia goes offline Mobile Internet blackouts in the Nizhny Novgorod region leave residents questioning officials’ explanations and fearing lasting restrictions
Russia goes offline
Mobile Internet blackouts in the Nizhny Novgorod region leave residents questioning officials’ explanations and fearing lasting restrictionsMeduza
Is there a maintained bypass-paywalls Firefox extension out there?
Hello.
I just noticed in one of my Firefox profiles that Mozilla auto-disabled the "Bypass Paywalls" extension after removing it from their end, which apparently happened a while ago.
I don't think I ever even used this extension, which is why I didn't catch this earlier. But now that it's banned, I definitely want it around 😉
The upstream repository also got DMCA'd. The repository of a presumably alternative (or cleaned) extension is also gone, although I found some GitHub mirrors of it (how ironic).
So, is there a maintained extension upstream I should know about?
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Study Finds That School-Based Online Surveillance Companies Monitor Students 24/7
Study Finds That School-Based Online Surveillance Companies Monitor Students 24/7
Recent study at UC San Diego is the first detailed assessment of companies offering school-based online surveillance services such as social media monitoring, student communications monitoring and online activity monitoring to middle and high schools…today.ucsd.edu
[JS] Psst: wanna buy a legit FBI email account for $40?
Cybercriminals are selling active .gov and .police accounts, enabling identity takeover, fraudulent subpoenas, and access to sensitive law enforcement systems.
https://abnormal.ai/blog/compromised-police-government-email-accounts
That not at all how it works. The point is that dropping bombs for the purposes of imperialism is different than dropping bombs for the purpose of anti-imperialism. The USA is the torch bearer of the globe spanning empire that they took over from Western Europe. That empire at its height dominated 80% of the world's population and to this day that empire continues to cause more death and destruction than any other movement in the world. We are now in the fifth century of this empire's existence.
The Russian Federation is not an empire and it is not imperialist. Just a few decades ago it's entire system of government and economics was completely ended and rebuilt under the dominance of the empire (described above). The Russian Federation does not occupy any colonies or subjugated territories, as the US does (Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Guam, etc). The Russian Federation is not the continuation of a settler colonial state like the US is. The Russian Federation does not have 600 military bases all over the world where it operates without legal oversight.
Russia has done lots of bad things. All worthy of criticism. But that criticism needs to be contextualized, because while those bad things are worth analyzing and discussing, they can in no way ever be used to justify the actions of the global spanning baby killing family starving genocidal eugenicist world destroying empire.
Can you install only some programs included in the Master Collection from M0nkrus?
Note: I am not requesting a link, source, but regarding the Master Collection from M0nkrus, I am curious if it is possible to only install some of the software rather than all of them. I only want about 3~8 of them and don't need the other 16. (just Dimension, Illustrator, PS, and maybe the 5 Substance 3d apps)
I don't know if I should get them together or separately. I feel like the process might be more straightforward/less likely to run into issues if they are from the same collection, but I don't know.
Thank you.
Thank you for the advice. Get them separate just because of how few I am looking to get? I feel like there might be more setup required if I get them separately.
I also don't know if getting them separate would cause me to get redundant installers/managers/rules+patches each trying to apply the same patches.
Are jmp.chat eSIM adapters unique
I think the eID should be unique and gets transmitted.
That's probably the ID that forbids me from installing (another) speedtest eSIM, though "ID" could also refer to IMEI perhaps. I'd have to try another phone.
```<>
Error code: ES10B_ERROR_REASON_UNDEFINED
Last HTTP response (from server):
{
"header": {
"functionExecutionStatus": {
"status": "Failed",
"statusCodeData": {
"subjectCode": "8.2.6",
"reasonCode": "3.8",
"subjectIdentifier": "Matching ID",
"message": "Refused"
}
}
},
"transactionId": "[You don't need this]"
}
Last APDU response (from SIM) is successful
```
Based on this, it is a part of the transmitted information, if I understand it right: sharetechnote.com/html/Handboo…
Beijing's first World Humanoid Robot Games opens with street dance, martial arts and music
Humanoid robots hip-hop danced, performed martial arts and played keyboard, guitar and drums at the opening ceremony of the first World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing on Thursday evening.
The competition begins Friday with more than 500 humanoid robots in 280 teams from 16 countries, including the U.S., Germany and Japan, competing in sports including soccer, running and boxing. It comes as China has stepped up efforts to develop humanoid robots powered by artificial intelligence.
During the opening ceremony, the robots demonstrated soccer and boxing among other sports, with some cheering and backflipping as if at a real sports day.
Beijing's first World Humanoid Robot Games opens with street dance, martial arts and music
Humanoid robots have showcased their talents at the opening ceremony of the first World Humanoid Robot Games in BeijingFu Ting (The Independent)
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So Long to Tech's Dream Job: It’s the shut up and grind era, tech workers said, as Apple, Google, Meta and other giants age into large bureaucracies.
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/34411807
While many of them still provide free food and pay well, they have little compunction cutting jobs, ordering mandatory office attendance and clamping down on employee debate. [...] “Tech could still be best in terms of free lunch and a high salary,” Ms. Grey said, but “the level of fear has gone way up.”Along the way, the companies became less tolerant of employee outspokenness. Bosses reasserted themselves after workers protested issues including sexual harassment in the workplace. With the job market flooded with qualified engineers, it became easier to replace those who criticized.
“This is a business, and not a place to act in a way that disrupts co-workers or makes them feel unsafe, to attempt to use the company as a personal platform, or to fight over disruptive issues or debate politics,” Sundar Pichai, Google’s chief executive, said in a blog post last year.
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Text appearing justified
I've tried searching for what the cause of this is but I've had no luck so hopefully it's ok to ask here.
For some reason LibreWolf is displaying pages with a significant amount of spacing between words/text justification.
The screenshot provided shows how the LibreWolf docs page looks in Firefox on the left and LibreWolf on the right. I am currently running LibreWolf version 141.0.3-1 on Kubuntu 25.04
Is there some way to alter LibreWolf so it renders the text more like the Firefox does or is this finger printing related i.e. intentional?
Thanks!
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It seems a mix of fingerprinting resistance and/or missing system fonts. The thread says that it tells the website that you use windows so it tries to use windows fonts, which are not installed and the fallback is weird.
Text displaying strangely on LibreWolf in Kubuntu 24.04 - r/LibreWolf
View on Redlib, an alternative private front-end to Reddit.reddit.nerdvpn.de
Good find, hadn't thought of the OS being the issue given that Firefox was playing ball but that makes sense. Thank you! This give me a push in the right direction to where I found folks talking about problems accessing fonts when Librewolf was installed with dnf on Fedora.
Following the same strain of thought I decided to try installing Librewolf from Flathub; curiously it accesses and displays the fonts correctly therefore solving my issue. My original method of install was via the debian based systems repo.
solo dev here - built a privacy tool for anonymous social media browsing 🛡️
hope this is okay to share here - i'm a solo dev who just launched a privacy tool and thought this community might appreciate it.
built spybroski.com - it's basically a way to view instagram & snapchat stories completely anonymously. no tracking, no data collection, just pure privacy.
honestly started this project because i got tired of social media platforms knowing every single thing we look at. figured there had to be others who care about digital privacy too, especially in a tech-focused community like this.
it's completely free and i don't collect any user data (kinda defeats the point otherwise, right?). been working on it solo for months and finally got it to a place where i'm comfortable sharing.
would love to hear what you all think - any feedback from fellow tech people would be amazing. privacy tools are only as good as the community that uses them.
thanks for letting me share, and sorry if this feels too promotional. just excited to finally put something out there that might actually help people take back a bit of their online privacy.
check it out: spybroski.com/
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View any Instagram story anonymously - no login, no trace. Plus track followers privately via Telegram. Works on all devices, completely undetectable. Start free, then $4.99/month.SpyBroski
FOSS alternatives to Google Docs?
What are some of the best alternatives out there to Google Docs and other cloud based productivity software?
I've heard of CognitoForms as alternative to Google Forms, does anyone have any experience with it?
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I personally use LibreOffice as an alternative to docs and sheets. It took me a second to figure everything out, but it works well enough.
I don't really like their slideshow or drawing programs though. They don't work well
Edit: I took a quick look at Cryptpad and they also seem like a good option
Tracker shows several seeders, but torrent shows zero seeders?
Edit: I had to enable port forwarding. I didn't realize it was required.
Note: for some reason strikethrough isn't working (otherwise, I'd apply it to the original question. Also, not sure if I should delete this post now that it is working, or leave it up in case other people have the same issue.
Does anyone know why qbittorrent would be showing 0 seeders if a tracker shows that there are several?
I am using Proton VPN and qbittorrent. The torrent file is from teamos [dot] xyz.
ProtonVPN settings:
- Split tunneling enabled > Include mode > added app: qbittorrent
- Connected to the Netherlands (Wireguard UDP)
qbitttorrent settings:
- Network Interface set to ProtonVPN
Thank you
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Pretty sure that is just a discrepancy between when a site has last checked client announcements from the tracker and when what the tracker currently shows.
As of 2025, TPB for example links to 3.2 million torrents. Assuming client announcements were set to an average 1hr interval, that would require TPB to make 76.8 million checks every day for announcement updates.
So, I could see sites not maintaining accurate seeder/leecher data.
Meta appoints anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor
What could possibly go wrong?!
Also, it’s really cool how everything is going straight to hell. /s
Meta appoints notorious anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor
Meta has appointed right-wing, anti-LGBTQ+, anti-DEI conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck to advise them on preventing political bias in AI.Sophie Perry (PinkNews | Latest lesbian, gay, bi and trans news | LGBTQ+ news)
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Meta appoints anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor
Meta appoints notorious anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor
Meta has appointed right-wing, anti-LGBTQ+, anti-DEI conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck to advise them on preventing political bias in AI.Sophie Perry (PinkNews | Latest lesbian, gay, bi and trans news | LGBTQ+ news)
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Should I Change VPN So I can use Split Tunneling and Kill Switch Simultaneously?
Ultimately, I only want to use Proton VPN for torrenting and seeding, while not using Proton VPN for browsing the internet, using Steam and Discord (essentially everything else).
I'm currently using Proton VPN for torrenting, but sadly it doesn't support using a kill switch if I'm already using split tunneling. I read that NordVPN can use both simultaneously, but I'm not sure if this is actually true. Should I switch VPN so that I can use split tunneling and a kill switch together?
Essentially, I only want to use the VPN for torrenting, and it would be nice to be able to use a kill switch for the torrent if it loses connection.
Thank you.
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Turn the Proton killswitch off and use split tunneling, then bind your torrent client to the VPN. This is more reliable than a built-in killswitch.
Or if you're on Linux, spin up one of Binhex's bittorrent+vpn containers. Since you're using Proton, the containers from Binhex will automagically make sure your torrent client is using the random open port Proton picks each time you connect.
First Look Revealed of Sean Bean and Connie Nielsen in MGM+ Series ‘Robin Hood’
First Look Revealed of Sean Bean and Connie Nielsen in 'Robin Hood'
MGM+ has shared the first-look image from the upcoming drama series 'Robin Hood,' debuting later this year.Leo Barraclough (Variety)
Can’t pay, won’t pay: impoverished streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy
A decade and a half on from the Pirate Bay trial, the winds have begun to shift. On an unusually warm summer’s day, I sit with fellow film critics by the old city harbour, once a haven for merchants and, rumour has it, smugglers. Cold bigstrongs in hand (that’s what they call pints up here), they start venting about the “enshittification” of streaming – enshittification being the process by which platforms degrade their services and ultimately die in the pursuit of profit. Netflix now costs upwards of 199 SEK (£15), and you need more and more subscriptions to watch the same shows you used to find in one place. Most platforms now offer plans that, despite the fee, force advertisements on subscribers. Regional restrictions often compel users to use VPNs to access the full selection of available content. The average European household now spends close to €700 (£600) a year on three or more VOD subscriptions. People pay more and get less.According to London‑based piracy monitoring and content‑protection firm MUSO, unlicensed streaming is the predominant source of TV and film piracy, accounting for 96% in 2023. Piracy reached a low in 2020, with 130bn website visits. But by 2024 that number had risen to 216bn. In Sweden, 25% of people surveyed reported pirating in 2024, a trend mostly driven by those aged 15 to 24. Piracy is back, just sailing under a different flag.
Can’t pay, won’t pay: impoverished streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy
As subscription costs rise and choice diminishes on legal sites, film and TV fans are turning to VPNs and illicit streamers, with Sweden – home of both Spotify and The Pirate Bay – leading the wayGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
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Too bad the Republican party is dead, replaced by the MAGA Party. They no longer follow ANY of the tenets that comprise the Republican Party - lower taxes, smaller government, family values, personal liberty, economic responsibility, national security, etc. - and so the MAGA Party is a fully separate entity.
All Conservatives are MAGAs now, and the MAGA Party supports treason, corruption, racism, misogyny, pedophilia, rape, election fraud, and evil. Conservatives support all these traits.
The Republican Party is as dead as the Whigs, and should only be referred to in an historical/ scholarly context.
There is no such actual and real ability to remove any such from a person. It is a myth, used to create the delusuon of it being done. Gangs all the way up to the Military do a real, modern honest or at least candid (which is currently attempting the former from what the current change is to) rendition of what the old middle "evil" aged misunderstood original naming. More or less, an attempt to draw what ended up delusional. Current is much better and more accurate but the old end is attempting to be done again.
Money is as real as any soul leaving a person. Force can push in dimensions unseen but every soul can be stronger than every other dimension.
There's more but, meh...
"Markets" are the apex of the delusion that will destroy all life here soon.
So, I will not answer that with but the best rendition of reality I have thus far practiced to iterate well enough to build better understanding of the "matter."
Vegan Crunchy Wrap - Old Wild West 🌯🍟
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L'avevo già provato l'anno scorso ma non ricordo come fosse, voi l'avete provato?
Di solito mangiate vegan da queste catene di fast food?
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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 17th August 2025
Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.
Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
AI slop and the destruction of knowledge
This week I was looking for info on what cognitive scientists mean when they speak of ‘domain-general’ cognition. I was curious, because the nuances are relevant for something I am researching at t…Iris van Rooij
choice quote from Elsevier's response:
Q. Have authors consented to these hyperlinks in their scientific articles?
Yes, it is included on the signed agreement between the author and Elsevier.Q. If I were to publish my work with Elsevier, do I risk that hyperlinks to AI summaries will be added to my papers without my consent?
Yes, because you will need to sign an agreement with Elsevier.
consent, everyone!
Since when does infomaniak's swisstransfer.com require an email adress for download links and what are the alternatives?
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Meta appoints anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor
Meta appoints notorious anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor
Meta has appointed right-wing, anti-LGBTQ+, anti-DEI conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck to advise them on preventing political bias in AI.Sophie Perry (PinkNews | Latest lesbian, gay, bi and trans news | LGBTQ+ news)
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Stripe apologizes for customer service agents claiming LGBTQ products were banned
“The information given by our support team was totally wrong.”
'We Are Being Cooked Alive': Wildfires Driven by Climate Crisis Ravage Europe
As wildfires rage across southern Europe, claiming lives and displacing thousands, leaders are pointing to the fossil fuel-driven climate crisis.
Archived version: archive.is/newest/commondreams…
Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.
'We Are Being Cooked Alive': Wildfires Driven by Climate Crisis Ravage Europe
Fire-related deaths were reported in Turkey, Spain, Montenegro, and Albania.jessica-corbett (Common Dreams)
Tesla’s graphics are about to get Unreal
Tesla’s in-car graphics could be getting an upgrade thanks to Unreal Engine.
Foreign interference can be hidden in plain sight. Here’s how countries use ‘sharp power’ in Australia.
Op-ed by Ihsan Yilmaz, Research Professor of Political Science and International Relations, Deakin University - Ana-Maria Bliuc, Associate Professor in Social Psychology, University of Dundee - John Betts, Senior Lecturer, Monash University - Nicholas Morieson, Research fellow, Deakin University.
Last week, Australian authorities arrested a woman for foreign interference. The Chinese citizen and Canberra resident is just the third person ever charged under our foreign interference laws.
According to the Australian Federal Police, she was allegedly gathering information on, and may be involved in efforts to infiltrate, the Guan Yin Citta Buddhist association. The group is banned in China.
[...]
The story might seem unimportant. After all, it doesn’t involve defence secrets or political leaders, but a small, relatively obscure community.
But this is exactly why it matters. The case shows the Chinese Communist Party is deeply interested in Australia’s Chinese diaspora communities. It’s willing to disregard Australian law to police and manipulate them in ways that serve Beijing’s interests.
It also shows how authoritarian regimes use “sharp power”, or covert, manipulative influence, to do more than just spy. They also surveil, intimidate and control communities far beyond their borders.
[...]
Sharp power is different [from soft power and hard power in that] it manipulates and distorts the information people receive, quietly shaping how they see the world and the choices they think they have. It’s the use of covert, manipulative and often emotional tactics to shape how other countries think, decide and act, often without them realising it’s happening.
[...]
When China’s state news agency, Xinhua, operates openly in other countries, it is playing the soft power game. But when China Radio International secretly funds 33 radio stations in 14 countries, or when Turkey spreads anti-Western conspiracy theories and disinformation, it crosses into sharp power.
[...]
Sharp power in Australia
The Canberra spy case shows how Beijing can shape opinions by infiltrating local Chinese organisations. It can also control information and mobilise people in ways that serve its own political interests. It reveals how some authoritarian governments regard co-ethnic, co-religious, or culturally linked diasporas in the West as part of their national community and seek to influence them accordingly.
Australia’s universities have also been targets of China’s sharp power. Scholars critical of Beijing’s oppression of Tibetans, Uighur Muslims, and pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong have faced pressure from student groups aligned with Chinese state interests.
The Chinese language media in Australia has also become deeply influenced by Beijing’s narratives. Many once independent outlets now republish state controlled content, narrowing the diversity of views available to Chinese-speaking Australians. This also encourages them to remain loyal and connected to China.
[...]
For a multicultural society such as Australia, the challenge is to respond firmly to authoritarian sharp power attacks without undermining the openness and diversity that are among our greatest democratic strengths.
[...]
Foreign interference can be hidden in plain sight. Here’s how countries use ‘sharp power’ in Australia
Authoritarian nations are using new tactics, from emotional manipulation to digital surveillance, to sway diaspora attitudes in their favour.The Conversation
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in reply to NotFrenchJack • • •The maintainer moved it to a Russian site lol:
gitflic.ru/project/magnolia123…
magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean
gitflic.ruORbituary
in reply to hexachrome • • •thatonecoder
in reply to ORbituary • • •Venia Silente
in reply to thatonecoder • • •On the youtube-dl DMCA Takedown — Codeberg News
blog.codeberg.orgthatonecoder
in reply to Venia Silente • • •radio_free_asgarthr [he/him, comrade/them]
in reply to NotFrenchJack • • •gitflic.ru/project/magnolia123…
I am still getting updates nearly every day, so it must be maintained.
magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean
gitflic.ruSnot Flickerman
in reply to NotFrenchJack • • •gitflic.ru/project/magnolia123…
And for anyone concerned about it being hosted in Russia I will quote my own research from several months ago. Original comment follows:
Magnolia's Twitter Account: [ Removed in Accordance with Instance Rules ] \
Nitter Link: nitter.tiekoetter.com/Magnolia…
Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bypass_P…
It used to be on the official Firefox Extensions repository until DMCA takedown notices made them take it down.
web.archive.org/web/2021042921…
It used to be on gitlab until DMCA takedown notices made them take it down.
web.archive.org/web/2022032009…
It used to be on github until DMCA takedown notices made them take it down.
web.archive.org/web/2024061108…
It moved to gitflic.ru not because it's sketchy, but because of copyright enforcement.
It's kind of like sci-hub, in a way, it can only actually survive in a country that doesn't respect the US copyright cabal.
That being said, I've never audited the code, but it's open source (MIT-license) and signed by Mozilla as noted on its gitflic page:
magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean
gitflic.ruSnot Flickerman
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in reply to Snot Flickerman • • •Links to Twitter are not allowed on lemmy.dbzer0.com, please edit your comment accordingly
The Nitter link is allowed, as there's an exception for those
January 2025 rule change regarding Twitter links
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in reply to Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼 • • •Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼
in reply to Snot Flickerman • • •rumba
in reply to Snot Flickerman • • •Yeah, if you want software that's being banned everywhere you've got to get it from someplace that's willing to host it...
Thanks for the research
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@SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
@radio_free_asgarthr@hexbear.net
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in reply to NotFrenchJack • • •Incase anyone finds it useful.
Using a redirect to this website can be quite nice as well.
removepaywall.com/
RemovePaywall | Free online paywall remover
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