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paywall + r (emove)
read articles locked behind
paywalls of over 50 newspapers.

Tear down this wall paywall!

This extension is provided for educational purposes only. I do not endorse the use of it and strongly encourage you to subscribe to your favourite newspaper and support local journalism.

Got something on your heart? Throw me a mail @ [email protected] :)

• Allgemeine Zeitung
• Bergedorfer Zeitung v2.0+
• Berliner Morgenpost
• Burgstädter Zeitung
• Cellesche Zeitung Text only
• Dorstener Zeitung v2.0+
• Dresdner Neuste Nachrichten Text only
• Echo Online
• Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Text only, pictures available in gallery - v2.0+
• Giessener Anzeiger
• Göttinger Tageblatt Text only
• Halterner Zeitung v2.0+
• Hamburger Abendblatt
• Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung Text only
• Hellweger Anzeiger v2.0+
• Hochheimer Zeitung
• Hofheimer Zeitung
• Iserlohner Kreisanzeiger und Zeitung
• Kieler Nachrichten Text only
• Kreis-Anzeiger
• Kölner Stadtanzeiger
• Kölnische Rundschau
• Lampertheimer Zeitung
• Lauterbacher Anzeiger
• Leipziger Volkszeitung Text only
• Lübecker Nachrichten Text only
• Main-Spitze
• Mitteldeutsche Zeitung
• Mittelhessen.de
• Märkische Allgemeine Text only
• Münsterlandzeitung v2.0+
• NahverkehrHAMBURG v1.1+
• Neue Presse Text only
• Neue Rottweiler Zeitung v2.0+
• Neue Ruhr Zeitung (NRZ)
• Oberhessische Zeitung
• Ostsee-Zeitung Text only
• Ostthüringer Zeitung
• Peiner Allgemeine Text only
• Ruhrnachrichten v2.0+
• Saarbrücker Zeitung
• Schaumburger Nachrichten Text only
• Thüringer Allgemeine
• Usinger Anzeiger
• Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung
• Westfalenpost
• Wiesbadener Kurier
• Wolfsburger Allgemeine/Aller-Zeitung Text only
• Wormser Zeitung
• ze.tt v2.0+
• Titanic Magazin v2.2+

Madsack stores the complete article in text form (i.e. without media and formatting) in the source code of the page to enable indexing of paywalled articles in search engines like Google & Co. They also indicate that their article is available for free, presumably to achieve a higher ranking. The Web extension just reads this text and replaces the preview with it.

The CMS of the FUNKE Mediengruppe uses a solution by Piano, where the content gets removed afterwards. This script is easily blocked and requires no further work.

The CMS of the Verlagsgruppe Rhein-Main encrypts the article afterwards. They use a solution of the company LaterPay, whose encryption can be prevented by removing the configuration key used by LaterPay.

DuMont hides the article with css and displays a paywall container over it.

The Saarbrücker Zeitung saves the complete article and replaces it afterwards. Their paywall script is pretty bad and blocked by all common adblockers.

Never introduced. The FAZ has a social media section here, which is linked in their Instagram biography and shall be used to find articles they post about. Articles in this category can be unlocked by adding a ?premium at the end.

Fixed as of 03/16/2020

Introduced in Version 2.0. Article text will be loaded from a JSON only available on the mobile page using a XMLHttpRequest with a spoofed user-agent.

Introduced in Version 1.1. NahverkehrHAMBURG uses Steady to finance their site. All articles are available for free at release, but will be blocked with a popup after a few days. Only the view is blocked, so Unpaywall removes the element that advertises the paywall.

Introduced in Version 2.0. The CMS of Lensing Media uses a solution by Piano, where the content gets removed afterwards. Blocking this script works fine. Additionally, the content is blurred, but this blur is easily removeable by removing the class of the article object.

Introduced in Version 2.0. The Bergedorfer Zeitung uses a solution by Laterpay, which decrypts the text after paying. It's obfuscated with ROT13 -1/25.