How to Bypass Paywall and read full articles on various sites
Access Full Articles and Bypass Paywalls with “Bypass Paywalls Clean” for Firefox
Finding yourself blocked by a paywall when you just want to read a single article shared online? Subscribing to numerous news sites can be costly. The Bypass Paywalls Clean add-on for Firefox offers a solution, allowing access to full articles on many popular websites.
An Important Note: While this tool is convenient, quality journalism relies on funding. If you frequently use this add-on to read content from a specific website, please consider purchasing a subscription to support their work.
Get the Add-on:
You can install it directly from the official Mozilla Add-ons site:
Bypass Paywalls Clean on Firefox Add-ons
Supported Websites
This add-on works with a vast range of websites across various categories and global regions.
(Note: Sites marked with an asterisk () indicate that the bypass works for accessing their free articles only.)*
(The extensive list of supported websites follows, categorized as in the original text):
World news
Foreign Affairs - Foreign Policy - Harper’s Magazine - Inkl - Newsweek - Reuters - Stratfor - The American Interest - The Atlantic - The Christian Science Monitor - The Nation - The New Republic - The New York Review of Books - The New York Times - The New Yorker - The Spectator USA - The Washington Post - Time Magazine - World Politics Review
Business
Adweek - American Affairs - American Banker - Barron’s - Bloomberg - Business Insider - Digiday - Entrepreneur - Forbes - Fortune - Harvard Business Review - Inc.com - Law.com* - Law360* - MarketWatch - MIT Sloan Management Review - Modern Healthcare - Quartz* - Seeking Alpha - Stock News - The Business Journals - The Business of Fashion - The Wall Street Journal
Grouped: Crain Communications (Ad Age, Automotive News, etc.), NHST Media Group (Intrafish, Recharge, etc.)
Tech/Science
360Dx - Chemical & Engineering News - Chronicle of Higher Education - Dark Reading - Discover Magazine - GenomeWeb - MIT Technology Review - National Geographic USA - Nautilus - Precision Oncology News - Scientific American* - Times Higher Education - Towards Data Science - VentureBeat - Wired
Encyclopedia/Book library/Knowledge base
BBC History Extra - Encyclopedia Britannica - Glassdoor - Loeb Classical Library - Philosophy Now - Quora - Scribd - Statista - Study.com (no videos)
Magazines/Blogs
Apollo Magazine - Atavist Magazine - Billboard - Commentary Magazine - First Things - Medium (enable custom sites for custom domains) - National Review - Rolling Stone - Slate - SofRep - Sports Illustrated - The Art Newspaper - The Athletic - The Intercept - The Daily Beast - The New Atlantis - The Point Magazine - The Wrap - Vanity Fair - Variety - VeloNews
Local USA news
Honolulu Star-Advertiser - Houston Chronicle - Los Angeles Business Journal - Los Angeles Times - Mountain View Voice - New York Magazine (+ subsidiaries) - Newsday - Palo Alto Online - Pittsburgh Post Gazette - San Diego Union Tribune - San Francisco Chronicle - Star Tribune - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution - The Boston Globe - The Dallas Morning News - The Seattle Times - The Philadelphia Inquirer - Winston-Salem Journal - USA Today
Grouped: Gannett Group (Detroit Free Press, etc.), McClatchy Group (Miami Herald, etc.), MediaNews Group (Denver Post, etc.), Tribune Publishing (Chicago Tribune, etc.)
Canada
Financial Post - Le Devoir - National Post - The Globe and Mail - The Hill Times - The Logic - The Toronto Star (+ regional TorStar sites)
Europe
United Kingdom/Ireland
Belfast Telegraph - Financial News - Financial Times - Irish Independent - London Review of Books - New Left Review - Prospect Magazine - The Athletic UK - The Economist - The Irish Times - The New Statesman - The Spectator - The Telegraph - The Times - The Times Literary Supplement
Denmark
Finland
Grouped: Sanoma Media Finland (Helsingin Sanomat, etc.), Alma Talent (Kauppalehti, etc.)
France/Wallonia
Alternatives Economiques - Atlantico - Challenges - … (and many others)
Grouped: Groupe EBRA (Dernières Nouvelles d’Alsace, etc.), Groupe La Dépêche (La Dépêche du Midi, etc.), Groupe Rossel (Le Soir, La Voix du Nord, etc.)
Germany/Austria
Augsburger Allgemeine - Berliner Zeitung - Cicero - … (and many others)
Grouped: Funke Mediengruppe (Berliner Morgenpost, etc.), Madsack Mediengruppe (Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung, etc.)
Italy
Corriere della Sera - Domani - Il Fatto Quotidiano - … (and many others)
Grouped: Il Messaggero (+ regional), Quotidiano Nazionale (+ regional)
Netherlands/Flanders
De Morgen - Financieele Dagblad - NRC Handelsblad - … (and many others)
Grouped: Algemeen Dagblad (+ regional ADR), Mediahuis Nederland Regional (Noordhollands Dagblad, etc.)
Portugal
Russia
Spain
ABC - El Confidencial - El Mundo - El País - … (and many others)
Grouped: Grupo Vocento (ABC regional sites like El Correo, etc.)
Sweden
Dagens Industri - Dagens Nyheter - NyTeknik
Switzerland
Africa
Kenya
Australia/New Zealand
Brisbane Times - New Zealand Herald - The Age - The Australian Financial Review - The Sydney Morning Herald - … (and many others)
Grouped: News Corp Australia (The Australian, Herald Sun, etc.), Australian Community Media (Canberra Times, etc.), Australian Provincial Newspapers (Sunshine Coast Daily, etc.)
East Asia
Asia Times - Caixin Global - Nikkei Asian Review - South China Morning Post - The Diplomat - The Japan Times - … (and others)
India
Bloomberg Quint* - Business Standard - Hindustan Times - LiveMint - The Economic Times (ET Prime) - The Hindu - Times of India - … (and others)
Israel
Globes - Haaretz.co.il - Haaretz.com - The Jerusalem Post - The Marker
Lebanon
Latin America
Argentina
Brazil
Exame - Folha de S. Paulo - O Estado de S. Paulo - O Globo - … (and others)
Chile
Diario Financiero - El Mercurio - La Tercera - … (and others)
Mexico
Peru
Handling Sites with Limited Free Articles
Some websites offer a few free articles before showing a paywall. Often, this limit can be reset by clearing the site’s cookies.
- Use the Add-on’s Button: For supported sites, click the ‘Bypass Paywalls Clean’ icon in your toolbar and choose the ‘Clear Cookies’ button.
- Manual Clearing/Alternative Add-on: If the button isn’t available or doesn’t work, you can use your browser’s built-in tools to clear cookies for that specific site, or install a dedicated extension like Cookie Remover. Refresh the page after clearing.
- Automation via Custom Sites: You can often automate this cookie clearing by adding the site to the ‘Custom Sites’ list (see below).
Advanced Features & Configuration
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Adding Custom Sites:
- You can configure the add-on to attempt bypassing paywalls on sites not included in the default list. Access this via the add-on’s ‘Options’ > ‘Custom Sites’.
- Permissions: Enabling custom sites requires granting the add-on broader permissions to access website data. You can opt-in within the options or grant permissions specifically for the domains you add.
- Configuration Options: For custom sites, you can try different tactics like removing cookies, masquerading as a search engine bot (Googlebot/Bingbot), disabling JavaScript, or setting a specific referrer (like Google or Twitter).
- Android Note: Granting permissions for custom sites might not work as expected in Firefox for Android. In this case, consider using the alternative Bypass Paywalls Clean (custom) version, which requests the necessary permissions upon installation.
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Excluding Sites:
- If you subscribe to certain publications and want to ensure the add-on doesn’t interfere with your logged-in access, add them to the ‘Excluded Sites’ list in the Options. This also works for specific sites that are part of a larger group controlled by a single option.
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Requesting New Site Support:
- If a website isn’t supported, you can request it on the project’s GitLab issues page.
- Before submitting, please check if a request already exists.
- To help developers, try visiting the article in an incognito window via a Google search link, or try disabling JavaScript (e.g., using the uBlock Origin panel’s </> button) and note if either method works. Include these findings in your request.
Tips and Troubleshooting
- Use with an Ad Blocker: This add-on pairs well with uBlock Origin. Consider adding filter lists like “Fanboy’s Enhanced Tracking List” for better results.
- Check Site is Enabled: Make sure the specific website (or its group) is checked/enabled in the add-on’s Options page.
- Potential Conflicts: If a supported site isn’t working, try temporarily disabling your ad blocker (like uBlock Origin) or other extensions to see if there’s a conflict.
- Login Issues: Be aware that the add-on might log you out of sites it actively manages. Use the ‘Excluded Sites’ feature for your subscribed sites.
- Keep Updated: Ensure you are running the latest version of Bypass Paywalls Clean.
- Cookie Banners: To automatically handle cookie consent pop-ups (especially common in the EU), consider installing the I don’t care about cookies extension or adding filter lists like “Easylist Cookies” or the “I don’t care about cookies custom filter” to uBlock Origin. Note: Some sites require consent cookies for media playback.
- Report Issues: If you encounter persistent problems, submit an issue on GitLab with details about the site and the problem.