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Tell HN: Outline.com is offline, domain for sale

40 points by dredmorbius ↗ HN
Outline.com was a website readability / paywall bypass site. It's been modestly popular for years among HN users, including myself.

The domain now redirects to a seller site: https://outline.com

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vmoore
I used it to point people to a reader-view of an article here on HN, or where an article was paywalled. Sadly it needed javascript to work, and sometimes it wouldn't allow certain articles to be 'outlined', randomly and without reason.
exolymph
Sad but unsurprising. I'm amazed that archive.is is still around, to the extent that I wonder who really funds it...
cercatrova
Just use a browser extension version (works on Firefox despite the name only mentioning Chrome): https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean

I've never understood why these sites exist when the above extension exists, as they're slower than the extension.

skinnymuch
Not everyone is sitting at a desktop and using FF or a Chromium variant.
earth2mars
You can use Kiwi browser with this plugin on Android. If you are on iOS, sorry!
skinnymuch
That’s a niche browser without an update since 2020. Doesn’t bolster OP’s case:

> I've never understood why these sites exist when the above extension exists, as they're slower than the extension.

One could say why use Kiwi browser and a plug-in when websites exist.

darepublic
I noticed the first day this was down because I was using their API in a demo. Bad luck