In recent years, many online media have introduced a paywall to make articles available only to premium users. At the same time, however, they want these articles to continue to be included in the index by search engines in order to attract readers. To make this possible, they build in a backdoor. If the page is retrieved with the user agent identifier of the crawler of a search engine like GoogleBot, then you can often (but not always)…
This is not a bug but a feature that the webmasters of the online media have specially built in, ignoring Google’s hints for the verification of the bot (too complicated?)
The user agent identifier of the general Google Bot is: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
The secret How-To:
Create your own paywall container in FF and configure the header in CanvasBlocker with the given user-agent like this:
Credits go to privacy-handbuch.de
I also had both installed for some time, but uBO already killed everything, so Privacy Badger had nothing to do (and learn). It seemed a bit redundant to me, so I removed PB again. Question to all who have uBO and PB together running for a long time: Does this make any sense at all?
I will skip the security focussed extensions.
Vivaldi:
Clear Cache Shortcut
Eyedropper
GNOME Shell Integration
Toby
Super Dark Mode
Picture-in-Picture
Monosnap
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