Reviews & Comments of Spaywall - spay your paywall chrome extension
From August 26th, 2020 to April 6th, 2023, 139% user give 5-star rating, 14% user give 4-star rating, 7% user give 3-star rating, 18% user give 2-star rating, 61% user give 1-star rating. for Spaywall - spay your paywall chrome extension.
Reviews of spaywall - spay your paywall:
worked like a charm so far.
How to work well ? anybody work in Bloomberg sites ? Tell me anybody. thank you
Finally found an extension that works! Love it!
It works to get through news site paywalls, which is a lifesaver, but doesn't let me interact with some pages past reading them - overall a very useful extension with only minor limitations
Truly a life saver for university, I cant afford to read all the article I need for my papers or classes. TYSM.
This extension does NOT work as the user would expect it to. It will work on some level if the article is older or if the ext can find the article elsewhere on the internet. Great idea, way to think outside the box. However that is not what the expectation is. That is the source of all the poor reviews. I get it, it does work in a sort of work around kind of way, but users don't want sort of a work around where they read old articles later in the day or some such thing. Users need basically a paywall work around (basically a unbreakable legal hack). With that ugly stuff said, it is a great effort and a terrific attempt at what most think of as an impossible task and I thank the dev's for putting it out there and letting us try it for free. Thank you.
Just downloaded this, I appreciate the developer of this extension explaining to people who left low reviews why this would not work on some websites, thank you
doesn't work :/
This site is such a Blessing!!! It works perfectly and even cuts out the ads -- most wonderful!
This paywall 'redirector' works perfectly as expected. The technique of searching and redirecting users from the original article (with a paywall) to the archive of all articles ever posted (without a paywall) for the exact same article is ingenious and actually really smart. Bypassing the paywall to deliver the same exact content without breaking terms of service. Smart. To new users reading older, negative reviews, obviously it won't work for articles posted an hour beforehand, but I've had no problem with articles uploaded say in the morning and reading them at night.
Sorry for the bad rating, but does NOT work with Artnet News, the only site I ever really visit that has the annoying paywall bologna, maybe you guys, gals, or non-binary pals can work on it, as I'd much rather give a 5 star rating for all your hard work. Much love!!! ✌ .ƹ.
simply just works
SIMPLY DOESN'T WORK.
Works great. Thank you kindly for helping keep info free, ?)/ bravo dev/s
Excellent! Bypass New York Times paywall!! Thank you!
Completely worthless. Does nothing but take up space on my phone.
It works beautifully! Thanks Dev.
Fantastic app! Worked a treat
takes me to another site that still has a paywall... takes me here http://web.archive.org/web/20191011123144/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcontent%2F0bc15800-043d-11e3-a8d6-00144feab7de
doesn't work on reuters. S A D
I love it! Use it for school because I am not gonna pay to read the paper. Really works 10/10 recommend!
This extension is amazing because it lets you read content from all over the world, not only of US and Europe newspapers. This is simply the best, the developer(s) deserve a lot of love and money! xD
Works amazing!
100% completely useless, for me. It works in a very passive way - they amass news articles and serve you the cached copies. Unfortunately this means you can only read articles which have been out for at least a few weeks! Who only reads the news from a few weeks ago? Also, why would anyone design an extension that works this way? It's a bad idea and completely useless to 99% what most people are looking for. (Hot tip: right-click on the page's background, change 'display: flex' to 'display: none', then delete 'overflow:hidden' from the <body> tag. That will show the article, works on almost all paywalls.)
It actually works. Yay!
Worked great on the Nat. Geo. article i needed for class
This is nice for anyone who does research or like to ready a lot of news. It was helpful to me to get past a few paywalls. Worth the extension, I hope Nerdy Labs keeps making great products like this.
Love love love being able to read articles without being stopped by paywalls. I've recently completed some local real estate research and was able to pull up relevant articles across several newspaper sites....for free. The only downside is the articles have to be old enough to be archived, but for me that's worth avoiding paying for several subscriptions. Thanks for putting this together!