cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/21672073
You will go straight to jail 😡😡😡
this post was submitted on 24 Oct 2024
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Most paywalls know this and don't load the content at all. Don't do it because it doesn't work
Yep. They’ve gotten smarter. Some of the plugins and tools websites use to create a paywall will actually only render part of the article to the browser before the user signs up. They used to simply mask it and you could remove the paywall via editing some CSS in the browser’s dev tools to see all of the text, but that’s not the case anymore.
Source: web dev for ~20 years.
Server-side paywalling? Everything old is new again.
Yeah this hasn’t been working for a while