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<form class="flex text-xl" action="/proxy"><input type="text" class="px-4 flex-1 min-w-0 border border-gray-400 border-r-0" placeholder="https://news.com/article..." name="q"><input type="submit" class="hidden"><button
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SHOW ME A 10FT PAYWALL, I’LL SHOW YOU A 12FT LADDER.

Remove
Paywall

Bypass any paywall,

https://12ft.io/<URL>

economist.com

12ft.io/economist.com

(Paywall Removed)


WORKS WITH YOUR FAVORITE WEBSITES


FAQ


WHAT?

Prepend 12ft.io/ to the URL of any paywalled page, and we'll try our best to
remove the paywall and get you access to the article.


WHY?

I believe Google Adwords killed the web. Google Adwords incentivized sites to
peddle SEO optimized garbage. Sites who aren't are forced to optimize for email
capture so they can market directly to you. Search results now show "news", ads,
and SEO spam instead of surfacing information.

You ought to be able to search something on Google and get an answer to your
question without signing up for some newsletter. This is why I created 12ft.io.


HOW DOES IT WORK?

The idea is pretty simple, news sites want Google to index their content so it
shows up in search results. So they don't show a paywall to the Google crawler.
We benefit from this because the Google crawler will cache a copy of the site
every time it crawls it.

All we do is show you that cached, unpaywalled version of the page.

@thmsmlr