Ask HN: How can I filter out paywalls from my internet?

Several years ago, I wrote a Greasemonkey script to do this. I haven't used it in years, and am not sure if there's an alternative for Brave browser (my new standard).

It basically looked for all the "a" elements in the DOM and:

1. Set the href to call a JavaScript void

2. Set the element style's text-decoration to none

3. Set the element style's background color to #f3f315

12ft.io

Why?

To more fully embrace the ad-driven hellscape that is the modern world, presumably.

Can someone tell me why google allows paywalled results?

Because their crawlers get special treatment and don't see the pay wall so they can index the pages and they don't care to double check because they are getting your ad money anyways.