Bypass Paywalls Clean Shut Down For DMCA Anti-Circumvention Violations * TorrentFreak
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Bypass Paywalls Clean, a popular browser extension that does exactly what its name suggests, has been shut down along with 3,879 forks.

FYI, the repo is not DMCAd yet, only the download URL which moved to gitflic.

  • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    36·
    3 months ago

    Hosting on the github was never going to work. This needs hoisting on something like a gitea behind an anonymized host which ignores dmca

      • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        18·
        3 months ago

        Only problem of hosting in a russian site, is that it’s going to raise red flags for many people, causing them to avoid it.

        • 🐍🩶🐢@lemmy.worldEnglish
          7·
          3 months ago

          Yeah, I have Russia and a few other countries blocked on my network. That is a no-go for me personally.

        • LucidNightmare@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          3 months ago

          Yes, I agree. I found this over the weekend, and immediately backed out and scanned my computer. I just figured it had been compromised.

        • Venia Silente@lemm.eeEnglish
          38·
          3 months ago

          That mostly reeks of Classic Americacentrism. When a software is in a US site, it’s “good” but subject to DMCA. When it’s in a Russian site, suddenly it’s All Malware (Always Has Been)?