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Because the sites that have set up the paywall will report the extension and get it taken down, happened to an extension that I made a while back that had a sim
by JamieF1 9y ago
Because the sites that have set up the paywall will report the extension and get it taken down, happened to an extension that I made a while back that had a similar idea.
- personjerry 9y agoWhy is it take-down-able?
- kahnpro 9y agoBecause it allows people to circumvent the paywall and WSJ will complain to Google. And then because Google can take down whatever they want...
- chii 9y agoWhich is why you don't put your extension as s Chrome extension, but as a tamper monkey script.
- _e 9y agoWhat is the best, in your opinion, site to find tamper/grease monkey scripts? I remember the landscape being fragmented some time ago.
- skinnymuch 9y agoYeah. Seems like when the main site went down, the scene never got things back on track with a proper aggregator or central site.
- crtasm 9y agohttps://greasyfork.org/ https://greasyfork.org/ - it's been a year or so since I've made use of it but after userscripts.org became unusable this was my replacement. they made some sensible decisions about what's acceptable in a script and whitelisted external libraries: https://greasyfork.org/en/help/code-rules https://greasyfork.org/en/help/code-rules
- donohoe 9y agoNot really. There are lots of extensions that do this: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/paywall%20remover?_category=extensions https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/paywall%20remover?... I'm sure many get taken down by request but its usually on a technicality (flimsy trademark claim) or sloppy assessment on Google's part.