Mozilla company without preliminary warning and without disclosing the causes deleted from the catalog addons.mozilla.org (amo) addition bypass Paywalls Clean , numbering 145 thousand users. According to data of addition to the reason for the removal was a complaint about violation of the addition of the current Copyright law in the digital era (DMCA). Subsequently, the addition cannot be restored in the Mozilla catalog, so users are invited to install XPI-FALE Bypassing the Mozilla catalog using the ABOUT interface: Addons.
The remote addition was intended to organize access to materials distributed by paid subscription (Paywall). In most cases, it is enough to replace the Browser identifier (user) “Googlebot” for bypassing Paywall, which can also be done in any addition that allows the user to change the value of user agent.
Paywall method is used by many large English -speaking publications (Forbes.com, Independent.co.uk, Newsweek.com, NewYorker.com, Nytimes.com, Wsj.com, etc.) to open the full text of fresh articles only paid subscribers. References to such articles are actively promoted on social networks and search engines, but after the transition on published links instead of opening the full text, the user is invited to issue a paid subscription if he wants to see the details.
For the work of such a scheme, they usually open full access to search engines and social networks, as publications are interested in indexing texts and attracting visitors who are interested in this material. Therefore, to circumvent access restrictions, as a rule, it is enough to simply change the browser identifier and pretend to be a search boot (on some sites it may also be necessary to clean the session cookies).