Spaywall News & Research - spay your paywall

Name: Spaywall News & Research - spay your paywall
Rating: 3.402061855670103 (97 reviews)
Author: https://spaywall.com

Legally read news and research papers for free, on any device.

This extension was removed from Chrome Web Store on 2025-01-25

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Spaywall News & Research is the original browser extension that helps you LEGALLY avoid paywalls by searching online archives and redirecting you to a paywall-free version. By pointing your browser to a different website, we are not bypassing or interfering with the paywall on the original article source in any way.

Researchers can also use Spaywall to download free versions of Open Access research papers and articles. Click to search our database of millions of legal, free, full-text scholarly articles and we'll redirect you to the PDF instantly. These Open Access articles are research papers that have been posted with the full permission of the authors and publishers involved. Save time avoiding paywalls and logins, great for students and academics!

Please Note: ✓ Spaywall can be used for 100% FREE, though the Free plan has limitations. ✓ Upgrading gives News junkies additional archive sources for even better news coverage. ✓ Upgrading also gives 24/7 All-Hours Access instead of limited to off-peak hours. ✓ Our algorithm strives to find an archived article that is paywall-free. It's pretty good, but it can never work on all articles. ✓ Because we are searching online archives for a paywall-free copy, an archived copy must already exist. That means articles may need to be a few days old for them to have been crawled by the archivers (though we have seen same-day news work many times!) ✓ If you frequent a particular news outlet, please consider directly supporting the journalism you love.

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Version:

1.0.1 Last updated: 2024-01-23

Creation date:

2020-06-10

Risk:

Permissions:

activeTab

Size:

63.69KB

Email:

sp*****@gmail.com

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

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Source:

Chrome Web Store

Data ingested on:

2025-01-25

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Spaywall - spay your paywall (v1.0.1)

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Spaywall News & Research - spay your paywall (v1.0.1)

5,153 4.20

(12)

Publisher Change History

2024-01-04: Email was changed from he*****@spaywall.com to sp*****@gmail.com

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User reviews

Pros

Works on many articles and provides access to more content
User-friendly and allows multiple device access for synced accounts
Great for reading current relevant articles without paywalls

Cons

Does not work on many sites, especially during peak hours
Replaces existing paywalls with its own paywall
Has become less effective after updates, with some features now behind paywalls

Recent reviews

Doesn't work, don't waste your time

Ja*****, 2024-12-23

Was great for a week, then I suddenly can't view anything during peak hours without paying. Absolutely useless and I'm not prepared to waste my money just to read things during peak time for free. I recommend downloading Paywall-Free Reader instead. They aren't forcing you to pay anything and the articles seem to have more chance of being archived than on spaywall. Sorry but I'm out. Adios Spaywall

lo*****, 2024-12-11

Absolutely fantastic extension, works on most articles i'd like to read, lifesaver!

Le*****, 2024-12-02

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Spaywall News & Research - spay your paywall does not require any sensitive permissions.

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Spaywall News & Research - spay your paywall may not be trust-worthy. Avoid installing if possible unless you really trust this publisher.