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minus-square🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 days agoDammit. Everyone’s been using that site to get around paywalls because it works well. Now I have to go find another one that works as well. :|
minus-squaredan@upvote.aulinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-23 days agoIt works well because they use paid accounts to scrape a bunch of paywalled sites, which is why publishers are trying to figure out who runs it. It’s completely untrustworthy now that they’ve shown that they can (and do) edit archived pages.
Dammit. Everyone’s been using that site to get around paywalls because it works well. Now I have to go find another one that works as well. :|
It works well because they use paid accounts to scrape a bunch of paywalled sites, which is why publishers are trying to figure out who runs it.
It’s completely untrustworthy now that they’ve shown that they can (and do) edit archived pages.