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| Original author(s) | magnolia1234 |
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| Developer(s) | magnolia1234 |
| License | MIT License[1] |
| Website | gitflic |
Bypass Paywalls Clean (BPC) is a free and open-source web browser extension that circumvents paywalls. Developed by magnolia1234, the extension uses techniques such as clearing cookies and showing content from web archives.[2][3]
The extension was originally released on GitLab before it was removed in April 2024, when a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown notice was filed against its source code repository.[4] Subsequently, magnolia1234 migrated Bypass Paywalls Clean to GitHub, where it was targeted by another DMCA takedown notice submitted by the News Media Alliance, resulting in GitHub restricting downloads of the software and its 3,879 forks in August 2024.[2][5]
The extension supports Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome.[3] Bypass Paywalls Clean was published on the Add-ons for Firefox website until a DMCA takedown notice was leveled against the Firefox extension in February 2023.[6] Due to a conflict with Google's rules, Bypass Paywalls Clean is not published on the Chrome Web Store.[3]
- ^ "bypass-paywalls-clean-filters / LICENSE". 10 September 2024. Retrieved 16 September 2024 – via GitFlic.
- ^ a b Maxwell, Andy (20 August 2024). "Bypass Paywalls Clean Shut Down For DMCA Anti-Circumvention Violations". TorrentFreak. Retrieved 16 September 2024.
- ^ a b c "Browser extension 'Bypass Paywalls Clean' that deletes cookies and cancels paywalls". Gigazine. 1 January 2022. Retrieved 16 September 2024.
- ^ Maxwell, Andy (14 April 2024). "DMCA Notice Targeting 'Bypass Paywalls Clean' Isn't The Thing to Get Angry About". TorrentFreak. Retrieved 16 September 2024.
- ^ Nefedova, Maria (22 August 2024). "Проект Bypass Paywalls Clean и почти 4000 его форков удалили с GitHub за нарушение DMCA" [Bypass Paywalls Clean Project and Nearly 4,000 of Its Forks Removed from GitHub for DMCA Violation]. Xakep (in Russian). Retrieved 16 September 2024.
- ^ "Paywall avoidance add-on 'Bypass Paywalls Clean' is deleted from Firefox's official add-on distribution site". Gigazine. 15 February 2023. Retrieved 16 September 2024.