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Ask HN: What happened to bypass-paywalls-Chrome-clean?

45 points by latchkey ↗ HN
Seems to have disappeared off gitlab and the developer's profile has been made private. This must have just happened within the last couple of days as they were updating twitter with new releases.

https://twitter.com/Magnolia1234B

https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/

https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean

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MasterIQ 

    The user is reported to be blocked on GitLab.
    And whose Twitter page seems to exhibit unusual loading issue: HTTP 404 of certain sub-requests.
hydrowater80
Anyone have suggestions for hosting the repo elsewhere?
hexagonwin
Damn, this was pretty essential nowadays. Anyone able to contact the dev?
swiftness427
@Magnolia1234B posted this on Twitter/X about an hour ago:

Bypass Paywalls Clean blocked on GitLab: another day another DMCA takedown notice ...

I'll consider later if I'm going to upload the code again on some GitHub alternative. For now update your extension/add-on manually (zip with latest extension versions): https://we.tl/t-ZHD2Ioi4aQ

I downloaded the file and can confirm it is updated and working.

EwanG
The last couple of versions I tried to download gave TROJAN warnings from MS Defender. I had created an issue on the project notifying the developer, and I understood he was changing things to not give a "false positive". Perhaps GitLab didn't think they were false positives?
KaKi87
If someone is on Twitter, please ask them to consider hosting on an independent git host, like notabug.org
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