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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Does this actually work? I just tried it on a story on The Atlantic website and I just got a print page that looks exactly like the locked paywall page (i.e. not the whole article).

    I use the web archives extension for firefox to easily get the archive.is version of pages. Unfortunately, doesn’t work when I’m using a vpn, but otherwise works like a charm.

    EDIT: I found this comment on the previous thread:

    https://lemmy.world/comment/13080227

    “The idea is you quickly press print before the paywall loads, so you can read the full article”

    That may work in some cases, but not all. Because not all paywall pages behave in a way where this is functional. The Atlantic is an example, it produces a partial page if you’re not past the paywall, so ctrl-p doesn’t work. The web archives extension still works though (I use it to easily access archive.is) and the extension is available on mobile firefox as well.

    I have also used 12 foot ladder in the past, and it works well. In fact, testing it now, it seems to even work when I’m using Proton VPN. archive.is does not work for me through the vpn, so I may switch back to 12ft.io. 12ft.io just has you append the paywalled url to their url, so it should be easy enough to make a bookmarklet.





  • Keep a stock message on your phone to cut and paste whenever an iPhone user sends you a potato-quality video. This is mine:

    Please don’t send video to me via iMessage from your iPhone. In fact, you really shouldn’t send video via iMessage at all. Video sent by Apple looks terrible on non-iOS phones. This is not a shortcoming of other phones, this is entirely Apple’s fault and is their explicit intention. If you want to send a video from your iPhone, you can open the Photos app, tap the share button, and select “share as an iCloud link”. That will enable All users to view your glorious video of your cat/kids/dinner/vacation/rant/whatever in the high resolution that your overpriced phone is capable of. Another option is to send the video using a messaging app such as Signal or WhatsApp. Alternate messaging apps are what most of the world use in lieu of sms/mms text messaging.

    This is a form letter response and you will get it every time you send me video from your iPhone via iMessage.

    P.S. I love you