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PSA: Get the Referer Control Chrome extension and set http://.*wsj.com to be referred to by http://www.google.com to skip WSJ's paywall always.
For the curious, this is because Google essentially has a very important rule: You cannot show the Google Robot things you don't show people who click on the link from Google. Content that Google indexes has to be unblocked for people visiting from Google.
If you don't do this, they'll remove you from their search results (which is bad news for traffic, obviously!)
This tactic works for paywalls on lots and lots of sites: Copy the URL for the article, go to Google, and search for the URL. In all likelihood this will get you a non-paywall version.
If you want to get even trickier, download this plugin for Chrome and set the referrer for merriam-webster.com to be google.com -- Never see their paywall again!
Whatever we do, it should definitely not be to download this chrome extension and set the filter for www.reddit.com to be blocked, because that would make brigading untraceable, and that's wrong.
Install this extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/referer-control/hnkcfpcejkafcihlgbojoidoihckciin?hl=en
And set the settings like this: http://i.imgur.com/BhbdYmj.png
No more paywall
You can block that content or fudge it. check this extension for chrome out and for firefox
Oops... I think it might just break their ability to block links from certain pages.
There isn't one for TDS, specifically. At least, not that I could find, but this one should do the trick.
It works by spoofing the webpage you put in to think that the referrer is a specific one you set ahead of time.
In the case of TDS, you can access its articles for free if you click the link to the article from Lebanon Google (google.com.lb). Long story short, this is for SEO reasons....
So with this plugin, you can set it up to make it so that anytime you visit a dailystar.com/* URL, the extension will trick it into thinking that you clicked the link from google.com.lb.
There are other plugins that try to do the same thing, so if you use Firefox you should be able to find another. Also, it's a good idea to note that TDS only paywalls articles related to Lebanon.
Also, also, if, for some reason, this doesn't work for you, you can always just save google.com.lb as a search engine and then search the paywalled article's URL. Click the link from google.com.lb and the paywall will be gone.
Possibly referer spoofing would do it. Though it's entirely possible (maybe even probable) that there are relevant cookies set by the YouTube page, so it may not be as simple as that.
You could try playing around with existing plugins for Chrome or Firefox and see if it works.
I doubt there'd be a specific "trick embedded YouTube" plugin for Chrome, since Google tends to keep plugins that mess with their own sites out of their web store. If it's possible to do it though there might be a dedicated Firefox plugin already.
In Chrome you have to use an extra extension to manage referrers URLs to specific sites, in Firefox you can flip the network.http.referer.spoofSource to true in about:config, which could solve the problem for many similar sites.
I use Referer Modifier on firefox, and have it remove on sankakucomplex.com. If you're on brave, a chrome extension like this should work in a similar fashion.
If you have Chrome (might be available on Firefox too) there's an extension to block referer'ing. In it you can set up exceptions for individual sites. So, you could still block on most everything, except for the 2 sites you need.
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https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/referer-control/hnkcfpcejkafcihlgbojoidoihckciin
two options:
- incognito mode
- Referer control browser extension - enter in
https://www.tulsaworld.comthen click on "custom" and enterhttps://www.google.com/Tulsa World now thinks you found the article on google and that means you're important and don't need no stinkin survey.
>Use caution when clicking on links that go straight to jw.borg due to the referer request header
Refer Control - Chrome addon This extension allows you to change or simply block the referer.
There are also similar ones for other browsers.
>As a part of this request, they can demand that the hosting company (Reddit in this case) hand over everything they have on the user responsible for the post in question.
I dont know 100% how bullet proof it is but you can use the Opera Browsers build in VPN. Works for me.
>For the goal of privacy, this is a good list.
I prefer this one
I had the same problem and even though it sounds like a common case I didn't find a proper solution online.
what I did feels hackie but it does the job. I added the following policy to the "dev" bucket, which allows requests only from a certain referer:
{ "Version": "2012-10-17", "Statement": [ { "Sid": "", "Effect": "Allow", "Principal": "", "Action": "s3:GetObject", "Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::qa-blog.envimate.com/", "Condition": { "StringLike": { "aws:Referer": "SOME_SECRET_YOU_GENERATE" } } } ] }
The next step was - find out how to "simulate" a referer - for that I found a chrome plugin https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/referer-control/hnkcfpcejkafcihlgbojoidoihckciin?hl=en
Especially if you don't have a fixed IP address - this will work for you.
Hope this helps!
sankakucomplex is a different issue.
An earlier private message of mine about Referer Control:
> I've simply checked Block and 3rd at the default referer for all other sites:, and it works fine. Not guaranteed that this setup won't break some other sites.
I wanted this one too, but I didn't have the motivation, since I rarely encounter such cases, but probably because I have referer info disabled.
For Firefox in about:config network.http.sendRefererHeader to 1, for Chrome use this extension (there are extension for Firefox too, if you want to fake referer urls).
I use Redirector to automatically add .jpg to direct images and /layout/horizontal/ to albums. Makes it so you never see the shitty new layout :D
Для Google Chrome есть расширения Refer Control и NOREF.
Better yet, grab Ref Control for Firefox or Chrome and add http://google.com/fuckyou to custom referral
The HTTP referer is always set, for both HTTP and HTTPS, as it's part of the HTTP header specification. However, it's your browser setting this variable, so it's fairly easy to mess with it. Both Firefox and Chrome have ways of modifying it.
It's strange that the article link still doesn't work for you. I've sent some other people to read the article using reddit, and it worked for them. The paywall page might just be cached in your browser. Either way, I'll PM you a copy of the article.