Lifting the paywall extension, BPC received DMCA again and the library was deleted. It continued to update, but the open source community was destroyed.

Bluedot.com has previously introduced Bypass Paywalls Clean (BPC), an extension program for removing paywalls. Some foreign websites sometimes require registration, login or subscription before they can be accessed. BPC will remove this restriction in some way. Of course, this There are also some copyright issues.

Initially BPC was hosted on GitHub and then the repository was stopped after receiving a DMCA notice (it is still accessible but the version is still 2022), and then moved to GitLab. Today the developer @Magnolia1234B The release stated that it had received another DMCA notice and therefore the GitLab repository was also suspended.

In theory, developers can still build their own Git to continue sharing source code, but this operation is still too troublesome after all, so the developers decided to no longer submit public source code or issues for the time being.

Note: The picture above is a previous screenshot

To put it simply, subsequent users can follow the developer's X/Twitter account and download the compiled extension from the network disk to install it manually (including Chromium / Firefox). If you encounter problems and need feedback, you can use X/Twitter's Submitted a private message question.

The result of this is that when everyone encounters a problem, they cannot submit issues like before. At that time, they could discuss together and find solutions, and they could also see the updates from developers. Now there is no open source community that directly handles BPC.

On the other hand, some commercial websites are also countering the bypass of BPC. The bypass method of some of these websites is actually very simple: for the sake of Google SEO, these websites provide AMP versions for direct access by Google crawlers. There is no paywall, so BPC will be displayed directly. AMP version.

Now most websites have abandoned this method, so the paywalls that BPC can bypass are limited, and the number of websites supported may continue to decrease as time goes by.

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