Bypass Premium Articles on The Jakarta Post website
Are you an avid reader like me for a news website like thejakartapost.com but just can’t stand their paywall on premium quality articles?
This unpacked source code for a chrome extension will help bypass the paywall on premium articles so you can read them for free.
I was expecting to find an existing Github Repo of a bypass for The Jakarta Post premium articles but unfortunately, I could not find any. So I thought of making one myself. Turns out it was pretty simple too.
The website has three divs called tjp-wrapper, tjp-paywall, and tjp-overlay. They will all inherit a class called active which will set overflow to hidden among others. All that was needed to do was to detect if the tjp-wrapper class had inherit the active class, delete the tjp-paywall and tjp-overlay divs, then set the overflow from tjp-wrapper to scroll.
Of course there are many ways to approach this problem, this is just one way. You might think of disabling the javascript code that detects the initial scroll and calls the paywall, or you might think of disabling the same divs above in a better order. For all I know, I made this for my personal use, but who knows it might come in handy to someone else.