Best 'bypass paywall' apps or sites? (www.vox.com)

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I already have the latest 'bypass paywall' clean installed , but I'm finding one of two things lately : either some previous bypassed sites are becoming subject to restrictions or some recently accessible sites are now restricted.

Case in point: Vox.

When I try to read any articles on the site now , I keep getting blocked by a popup that tells me to become a paid member.

The site use to take pride in being (mostly) free but now it appears to be (mostly) paid.

Is there anyway of getting around this?

thanks

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[-] dan@upvote.au 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Scripts/extensions/sites to bypass paywalls can only bypass soft paywalls, where the article is still available in some cases (e.g. you can read a few articles for free, they allow search engines to index the content, etc).

More and more sites are moving towards hard paywalls which can't be bypassed other than someone paying for the site and downloading the content that way, which is legally much more sketchy.

Some paid news sites let members create free links to share articles with non members, which is another option.