Looking for help here. I created a new Firefox profile and wanted to load the Bypass Paywalls Clean Add-on/Extension from the XPI file. So I did what I’ve always done and got the message displayed above.
Then I went into about:config and changed both xpinstall.whitelist.required and xpinstall.signatures.required to false. Fully exited and restarted the browser but still, no dice.
Anyone know how to fix this?
SOLUTION: go to extensions.blocklist.enabled and turn it to false
Oh they’re actively deciding what you can do with the software now. Cool. Love that.
If they didn’t have safeguarding in place, I’d be more worried. As with all things Firefox, it can be overridden.
This isnt news tho, its been banned for years.
I don’t understand why Mozilla is so smitten with this extension. They already removed it from AMO, why are policing it now. A tiny minority of folks use Firefox(as a percentage of market share) worldwide and only some part of it use this extension. Why go after it so hard?
They are policing it today, tomorrow they may say uBlock Origin violates our policies as well. Sure, technically one might be able to install via changing about:config toggle but that’s a bridge too far for most users.
It might seem I am making a huge mental jump for equating a paywall bypass extension to an adblocker extension, but in the eyes of corporations, both kind of users are equally loathed by them.
You can also use this filter list in uBlock Origin as an alternative
https://gitflic.ru/project/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-clean-filters/blob/raw?file=bpc-paywall-filter.txtSOLUTION: go to
extensions.blocklist.enabledand turn it tofalse.If you have a custom
user.jsoruser-overrides.jsyou might want to just add this to the file.Where did you get the extension? I’m interested in it now.
Chrome: https://gitflic.ru/project/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean
Firefox: https://gitflic.ru/project/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean
Adblocker filter (& userscripts): https://gitflic.ru/project/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-clean-filters
Thank you!!!
I just reinstalled it this morning on Waterfox and Fennec.
