#12footladder — Public Fediverse posts
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News publishers take #paywall-blocker 12ftio offline
The News/Media Alliance says it will take action against similar tools in the future.
12ftio — or #12FootLadder — allowed users to view webpages without #ads, #trackers, or #popups by disguising a user’s browser as a #webcrawler, giving them unfettered access to a webpage’s contents. Software engineer Thomas Millar says he created the site when he realized “8 of the top 10 links on Google were paywalled”
https://www.theverge.com/news/709209/news-media-alliance-12ft-io-takedown-paywall -
News publishers take #paywall-blocker 12ftio offline
The News/Media Alliance says it will take action against similar tools in the future.
12ftio — or #12FootLadder — allowed users to view webpages without #ads, #trackers, or #popups by disguising a user’s browser as a #webcrawler, giving them unfettered access to a webpage’s contents. Software engineer Thomas Millar says he created the site when he realized “8 of the top 10 links on Google were paywalled”
https://www.theverge.com/news/709209/news-media-alliance-12ft-io-takedown-paywall -
News publishers take #paywall-blocker 12ftio offline
The News/Media Alliance says it will take action against similar tools in the future.
12ftio — or #12FootLadder — allowed users to view webpages without #ads, #trackers, or #popups by disguising a user’s browser as a #webcrawler, giving them unfettered access to a webpage’s contents. Software engineer Thomas Millar says he created the site when he realized “8 of the top 10 links on Google were paywalled”
https://www.theverge.com/news/709209/news-media-alliance-12ft-io-takedown-paywall