Defeat All Paywalls By Building Your Own Google Chrome Extension [DIY]

Written by ipacheco | Published 2020/05/04
Tech Story Tags: paywall | medium-paywall | remove-paywall | medium | javascript | chrome-extension | chrome | how-to-read-paywalled-stories

TLDR A Chrome extension can detect we were stopped by the paywall and automatically open the site in private mode. The extension need some permissions, webRequest and webRequestBlocking for blocking a request (for the next chapter), tabs for creating a new window or tab. We need a title for our extension and popup.html to render when someone click on the extension icon. We need an id to send a message to the site body. This is the way our content scripts with the extension communicate the extension.via the TL;DR App

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Published by HackerNoon on 2020/05/04