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by kahnpro 3254 days ago
Because it allows people to circumvent the paywall and WSJ will complain to Google. And then because Google can take down whatever they want...
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Which is why you don't put your extension as s Chrome extension, but as a tamper monkey script.
What is the best, in your opinion, site to find tamper/grease monkey scripts? I remember the landscape being fragmented some time ago.
Yeah. Seems like when the main site went down, the scene never got things back on track with a proper aggregator or central site.
https://greasyfork.org/ - it's been a year or so since I've made use of it but after userscripts.org became unusable this was my replacement. they made some sensible decisions about what's acceptable in a script and whitelisted external libraries: https://greasyfork.org/en/help/code-rules
Not really. There are lots of extensions that do this:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/paywall%20remover?...

I'm sure many get taken down by request but its usually on a technicality (flimsy trademark claim) or sloppy assessment on Google's part.