Guides and updates on removing paywalls and reading articles free.
Dedicated guides for the last 5: WSJ, WIRED, The New Yorker, Harvard Business Review, and Business Insider. All 12 publications from our hub now have their own page.
Guide →An honest, categorized breakdown of which publications work great, which are metered, and which are genuinely hard — plus dedicated guides for Bloomberg, NYT, and Washington Post.
Guide →A publication-by-publication breakdown of what's actually free, what has a library workaround, and what needs a tool — covering NYT, WSJ, Bloomberg, Medium and more.
🔥 Breaking →12ft Ladder went offline permanently in July 2025. Here are 7 tested alternatives that still work right now — including archive tools, AI-based readers, and more.
Guide →A complete walkthrough of every reliable method to remove paywalls from any article — from archive tools to incognito mode. Includes step-by-step instructions.
News →With 12ft.io gone, which tools actually work? We tested them all — Archive.is, Smry.ai, 1ft.io, Wayback Machine and more — and ranked them honestly.
Our original guide covering browser extensions, cached versions, incognito mode, and archive tools for bypassing paywalls legally and effectively.