Formed in 2009, the Archive Team (not to be confused with the archive.org Archive-It Team) is a rogue archivist collective dedicated to saving copies of rapidly dying or deleted websites for the sake of history and digital heritage. The group is 100% composed of volunteers and interested parties, and has expanded into a large amount of related projects for saving online and digital history.
The Free Internet Plugin
A free Internet is a better Internet. This Chrome browser plugin removes paywalled content from Google search results.
If you don’t want to pay for the story, the headline shouldn’t even be an option to click. The business model of paywalls - i.e. annoy the user with a bait and switch ad for content a hundred times, and then they convert and pay every month until they die - hinders the internet’s ability to be a free and open experience. Hacker Noon believes that if the user doesn’t want to run into a paywall, they should be able to filter paywalled content out of its search results and newsfeeds. This plugin removes known paywalled sites from your Google results.
You can install it here!
Developer Install:
- Download the source code
- Open chrome://extensions in Google Chrome
- Click 'Load Unpacked Extension' and select the root extension folder
Currently Blocked Sites By Default:
- adelaidenow.com.au
- adweek.com
- arabianbusiness.com
- afr.com
- bild.de
- bloomberg.com
- boston.com
- bostonglobe.com
- bostonherald.com
- businessinsider.com
- chicagotribune.com
- couriermail.com.au
- csmonitor.com
- dagbladet.no
- dallasnews.com
- dpgmedia.nl
- economist.com
- fijitimes.com.fj
- ft.com
- guardian.co.tt
- handelsblatt.com
- heraldsun.com.au
- independent.ie
- irishtimes.com
- jacksonville.com
- houstonchronicle.com
- latimes.com
- makerpad.co
- medium.com
- nationalpost.com
- nbr.co.nz
- newsweek.com
- nnsl.com
- ntnews.com.au
- nymag.com
- nytimes.com
- ocregister.com
- politico.com
- scientificamerican.com
- seattletimes.com
- seekingalpha.com
- techinasia.com
- technologyreview.com
- techradar.com
- telegraph.co.uk
- theathletic.com
- theatlantic.com
- theaustralian.com.au
- thedailybeast.com
- thediplomat.com
- theglobeandmail.com
- theguardian.com
- theinformation.com
- thestar.com
- thetimes.co.uk
- time.com
- towardsdatascience.com
- usatoday.com
- uxdesign.cc
- vanityfair.com
- vogue.com
- washingtonpost.com
- wired.com
- wsj.com
- wwd.com
Acknowledgements
We are grateful to the authors of existing related projects for their ideas and contribution:
- uBLacklist
- Personal Blocklist
- Read more about decentralization, the internet, media, programming, startups, interviews, coding tutorials, life advice, and why paywalls are stupid via HackerNoon.
