Yeah 12ft doenst seem to work on any sites anymore. Does anyone have any alternatives that work? I’m already familiar with the airplane mode trick but that’s not always fit for purpose.

  • @mean_bean279@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22•8 months ago

    12ft.io is a website that allows you to bypass paywalls on websites. Specifically for articles/news. The idea being “show me a 10ft wall and I’ll build a 12ft ladder.” It worked well against a lot of article and news outlet paywalls originally, but as time has gone on more and more sites are starting to show up on it as unable to bypass.

        • @library_napper
          -2•8 months ago

          Everyone besides US Americans won’t understand imperial measurements

          • @mean_bean279@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1•8 months ago

            Since there’s approximately 17,000 Subway Sandwich locations across 100 countries outside the United States I’m gonna say that most people can just imagine 12 (maybe 13 if we assume the 11in subway lawsuit) full size Subway Sandwiches stacked on top of each other.

            • pragmakist
              1•8 months ago

              More than 400000 of us for each of those locations then, and how many of us have then bothered to wander in, I wonder?

              Anyway, would you really trust an American company to actually make their sandwiches 1ft tall?

              How would you even start to eat such a thing?

              (Also most standardized feet are around 30 cm, so 12ft is ~ 3.6 m)

    • Very_Bad_Janet
      2•8 months ago

      I just went to 12ft.io and got the following message:

      This Deployment has been disabled.

      Your connection is working correctly.

      Vercel is working correctly.

      So I’m guessing the site is gone?

        • The Bard in GreenEnglish
          4•8 months ago

          On the one hand, you’re absolutely right.

          On the other hand “The truth is paywalled, but the lies are free.”

          • @Euphoma@lemmy.mlEnglish
            2•8 months ago

            I wouldn’t really consider improving their website coding so that people can’t pirate it enshittification.

            Enshittification is based around a platform first creating something good for users and then making it good for suppliers and then when they are locked in, reduce quality. You aren’t locked into a news website that you aren’t even paying for, and you aren’t entitled to their products either.