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Does anyone know what if anything is substantively different between the original bypass paywalls[1] and bypass paywalls clean? The implication, obviously, is that the original is unclean.

[1]https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome

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The unclean part is referring to the presence of Google Analytics in the other extension

https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome/blob/c6...

I changed from that one to the clean one, from memory because it stopped working well.

The clean version seems to be updated constantly.

Besides what the others said, the new clean one supports a whole host of additional websites, is updated more regularly, and generally works better. I think my biggest issue with the clean one is that it's not on any of the add-on/extension stores, and it's unclear why it was removed from the add-on/extension store.

You can use this filter list in uBO as a workaround for the extension being off the add-on/extension store.

    https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-clean-filters/-/raw/main/bpc-paywall-filter.txt

Comes with the added benefit of working on Firefox for Android until they open up the addons floodgate.

It doesn't work quite as well as the full extension though :(

The main difference AFAIK is that it allows a custom site list, a feature the original version dropped at some point. I do not know why the distinction is clean vs an implied unclean

> I do not know why the distinction is clean vs an implied unclean

The Chrome version of the original extension (other than the Firefox version) embedded Google analytics.

edit: looked it up. Source: https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome/issues/...

Yeah, bypass paywalls clean both removes google analytics and seems to be updated more regularly (or it was when I switched a while ago, that could be different at this point).

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