Please add support for telegraph.co.uk

[nextgens]

It's non-straightforward ... I've reverted a naive, non-working attempt in a49c3d9f3b4b04d51e2598ecc2084b3e5d28ed08

[JTD420]

Does that mean it's more or less impossible? I have to say you've done a great job here with this extenstion! Blocks loads of websites paywalls so I'll definitely be downloading and using this from now on although I did actually stumble across your extensionn while looking for a paywall bypass for telegraph so I'm wondering if theres anything we can do to bypass this?

It seems they have the full premium content excluded (not inside the code) until you're logged in and their system has confirmed you are either premium or haven't used your one free article a week or whatever their limit is. Then if all that is confirmed the page will display the content. Am I correct in saying this? If so then I can see how bypassing the paywall is probably next to impossible! Otherwise how does it work and what ideas have you explored thus far to try getting it to work?

Thanks again for your hard work!

[nextgens]

I haven't taken the time to look at it yet... I am not a reader of the telegraph and have chosen to devote my (limited) time to bypassing simpler paywalls (of content that I do read).

Technically speaking, it's always possible to bypass paywalls; If one of the user does have access, he can "share/proxy" the content to others... the specifics of how it's done are obviously paywall dependent... and ultimately, it is always an arms-race with the paywall operator.

[nextgens]

The starting point would be to make a list of "ways" to get the content:

• a technical authorization bypass (what we do for other paywalls by pretending to be Googlebot)
• finding a proxy where IP based restrictions do not apply (typically the local library, a university, ...)
• "farming out" accounts (how difficult is it to create an account? would it be practical to programatically do it each time a user wants to read protected content?)
• "crowdsource" the content of protected articles ... among the user-base of the plugin, there might be "someone" with a valid subscription who could share the content to others.

[JTD420]

I actually do know someone with a valid subscription however I would imagine they wouldnt feel comfortable sharing it as telegraph would likely cancel the subscription as soon as its discovered if not worse...

In terms of farming out accounts that could be possible but I dont know how easy it would be to create. They most likely also do IP checks for duplicate accounts but yes if you can create an account that account actually is allowed one free premium article every 7days I think.

I've not thought about areas where IP based restrictions do not apply. I dont think I know any libraries that offer this but I'll keep my eye out! Happy to help where I can really.

But yeah thanks for posting that informative reply to my question! :) 👍