adoxa wrote: ↑2025-12-31, 07:29
At least bypassing the inews paywall is easy - disable Javascript.
One of the continued advantages in 2026 of browsing without JavaScript!

In Europe, one often encounters websites which will, if scripts are enabled, throw up a paywall where the only choices are to submit to tracking cookies or pay for the ‘premium version’. These sites are perfectly accessible as normal if accessed without JavaScript, leaving me rather perplexed at first when I tried accessing these same sites on another computer. Disabling cookies and banishing the overlay with µBlock worked then. Naming any specific sites would be unwise, but if you browse the German or even British web, you will surely have encountered these. This is why Cloudflare and other sites which mandate both cookies and scripts to function are so ominous to me. (Happily, Anubis seems to have lately added
a scriptless mode which seems to agree with my accessibility-related deactivation of automatic refreshing, so I need not name it beside Cloudflare.) Nobody has yet, as far as I have browsed, combined Cloudflare (or other dependency on scripting) with the European ransom model, but the idea is so obvious to me that it surprises me.