It died, but longer ladders will be there: 12ft – Wikipedia
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/31
From 12ft – Wikipedia:
On July 17, 2025, the News Media Alliance reported that it had taken down the website.
It’s impossible to enjoy the content of online media by paying (for instance because payment systems are not compatible, but also because those media often have region blocks), so this is to longer ladders (and understanding how ladders work):
- [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – wasi-master/13ft: My own custom 12ft.io replacement
- [Wayback/Archive] everywall · GitHub
- [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – everywall/ladder: Selfhosted alternative to 12ft.io. and 1ft.io bypass paywalls with a proxy ladder and remove CORS headers from any URL
- [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – everywall/ladder-rules: Ruleset for ladder. A Selfhosted alternative to 12ft.io. and 1ft.io bypass paywalls with a proxy ladder and remove CORS headers from any URL
- [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – everywall/everywall.github.io
Ladder was created the first time ft12.io got booted:
- [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – wasi-master/13ft: My own custom 12ft.io replacement (the author indicates in the selfhosted thread below that ladder is better)
- [Wayback/Archive] 12ft · GitHub Topics · GitHub – most of these depend on 12ft.io, so fail to work, or are unmaintained.
- [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – reynaldichernando/periscope: Hosted version of ladder and alternative to 12ft.io. – I only tried the hosted version which fails for the sites I tried it for
- [Wayback/Archive] Athlon1600/php-proxy-app: Web Proxy Application built on php-proxy library ready to be installed on your server – similar experience as periscope has
All of the above are on my list to try to self host eventually.
Related (for some, the archived links still work but now the actual links either banned or private):
- [Wayback/Archive] iamadamdev (iamadamdev) / Repositories · GitHub
- [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-firefox: Bypass Paywalls for Firefox
- [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome: Bypass Paywalls web browser extension for Chrome and Firefox.
The core was this:
- [Wayback/Archive] Remove Paywalls – Read full articles behind a paywall, for free! Works on Bloomberg, NYTimes, the Atlantic, hundreds more. looks like a wrapper around Archive.is and other archiving/indexing sites.
Via:
- [Wayback/Archive] ladder, the opensource and selfhosted 12ft.io and 1ft.io alternative : selfhosted
- [Wayback/Archive] 13ft / ladder: removing paywalls | Cloudron Forum
- [Wayback/Archive] 12ft.io – paywall remover taken down by News Media Alliance : LinusTechTips
- [Wayback/Archive] 12ft.io alternatives : OSINT
- [Wayback/Archive] Searching selfhosted alternative for 12ft.io : selfhosted
Queries:
- [Wayback/Archive] 12ft alternative at DuckDuckGo
- [Wayback/Archive] source code 12ft.io at DuckDuckGo
--jeroen
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