deceiver

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[–] deceiver 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

it absolutely can! there’s Bypass Paywalls Clean developed by magnolia1234. the reason you don’t see them shared often is that they’re repeatedly taken down from official extension stores like the Chrome Web Store and Firefox Add-ons, and platforms like GitHub, due to legal and political pressure from publishers, which pushes them to increasingly obscure and/or questionable hosting platforms that most normal users wouldn’t touch - case in point, Bypass Paywalls Clean itself is currently hosted on GitFlic, a Russian code hosting platform, as it’s been pushed outside the reach of Western legal frameworks

[–] deceiver 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

soft paywalls are enforced by JavaScript running in your browser - the server sends the full article content regardless, and then the JavaScript checks if you’re a subscriber and hides or blocks it if not. when archive.today or a self-hosted tool like ArchiveBox fetches the page, it gets the full content directly from the server before any of that JavaScript enforcement runs. the server doesn’t know or care whether you’re a subscriber, it just responds to the request

[–] deceiver 7 points 2 days ago (3 children)

the archiving mechanism itself is what bypasses paywalls. it archives by fetching pages server-side before client-side JavaScript enforces paywalls

[–] deceiver 13 points 2 days ago (5 children)
[–] deceiver 8 points 2 days ago (5 children)

no, archive.today (and similar services like the Wayback Machine) work by fetching the page directly through their own servers, essentially acting as a headless browser that renders the page and saves a snapshot. the archive service itself makes the HTTP request, executes JavaScript, and captures the resulting document object model - no subscriber involvement required

[–] deceiver 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

no, Bitwarden isn’t “based off” anything

[–] deceiver 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

where is the video? why was this upvoted?

[–] deceiver 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

an identity verification system that’s tied to Ukraine’s national government databases and uses taxpayer IDs, national ID numbers, and official digital signatures

[–] deceiver 6 points 2 weeks ago

actual data in the article:

  1. direct crime statistics: 80% drop in burglaries, 66% drop in property crime overall, FBI data showing 2023-2024 had the sharpest single-year decline on record

  2. academic citation: a 2021 paper that “directly links the startling drop in burglary to security improvements”

  3. specific numbers: Chicago went from 50,000 burglaries to much lower levels

[–] deceiver 52 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (7 children)

not to be rude, but this in no way encapsulates the main points in the article.

actual reasons given are:

  • better physical security (locks, lighting, alarms, controlled building entry)
  • surveillance technology (doorbell cameras, building cameras, smartphones)
  • less profitable theft (cheaper electronics, tracking devices, decline of cash)
  • higher perceived risk of getting caught

“The bottom line is that we changed our environment in a way that made burglary and robbery harder to pull off, less profitable, and more likely to fail.“

[–] deceiver 38 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

apple cider vinegar

[–] deceiver 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

ok, that’s basic cloud sync, which is a core free feature of Bitwarden, not a premium feature. you don’t need to purchase a subscription for that, it’s literally the fundamental purpose of any modern password manager and is completely free in Bitwarden

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