[GUIDE] - How to avoid Web Paywalls

[GUIDE] - How to avoid Web Paywalls

October 3, 2025

Intro

This year I was learning how to use Logto and others to do some kind of walls.

Not necesarily paywalls with stripe.

Then, I got to know about these 2: tools that people use to bypass some paywalls you bring to websites

Bypass Paywalls Chrome

13ft

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Conclusions

How to Avoid Paywalls: 12ft project

Thanks for the list - https://www.funkyspacemonkey.com/foss-front-ends-and-alternatives-for-twitter-instagram-reddit-youtube-and-more

Reading Focus: You can always have a look to RSS feeds of your favourite sites.

How about having a proper news feed?

Without the ads I mean.

I mean, Selfhostable and RSS Feeds!

  1. FreshRSS

  2. https://github.com/johnwarne/upvote-rss

MIT | Generate rich RSS feeds from Reddit, Hacker News, Lemmy, and Mbin

  1. https://github.com/civilblur/youlag

Youlag: A video extension for FreshRSS, offering a video-focused browsing experience for your RSS subscriptions.

FE Alternatives

If you appreciate your concentration, see:

Reddit

  1. https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib

Private front-end for Reddit Written in rust and with public instances here

Youtube

  1. https://github.com/iv-org/invidious

See my channel from one of their instances: https://yewtu.be/channel/UCPPMA8ZEusAe5dVH6PbjZFA

Others can also be: Piped, NewPipe