Ask HN: How can I filter out paywalls from my internet?

10 points by bezoz 4 years ago | 6 comments

I am not interested in bypassing paywalls. I just want to browse the web as if all those paywall sites do not even exist.

For example, I'd be happy if any link to a paywall site is replaced by a text indicating this is filtered. I don't want to see any paywall site results in Google search, or links in Google news... etc.

Appreciate any pointers.

scottlilly 4 years ago |

Several years ago, I wrote a Greasemonkey script to do this. I haven't used it in years, and am not sure if there's an alternative for Brave browser (my new standard).

It basically looked for all the "a" elements in the DOM and:

1. Set the href to call a JavaScript void

2. Set the element style's text-decoration to none

3. Set the element style's background color to #f3f315

rishikeshs 4 years ago |

12ft.io

holden_nelson 4 years ago |

Why?

thfuran 4 years ago | |

To more fully embrace the ad-driven hellscape that is the modern world, presumably.

anon9384929 4 years ago |

Can someone tell me why google allows paywalled results?

thfuran 4 years ago | |

Because their crawlers get special treatment and don't see the pay wall so they can index the pages and they don't care to double check because they are getting your ad money anyways.