🔓 PaywallFreeRADICAL how it works

Read any paywalled
article. Free.

Paste a link. We fetch it the way Google's crawler does and give you a clean, readable copy — plus every archive and bypass trick in one place.

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Every method, one page

When you paste a link we rank the tricks most likely to work for that site. A preview of what's on offer:

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Radical Reader Built-in

Clean, distraction-free text

We fetch the page as a search engine crawler, extract the article, and rebuild it as plain readable text. Best first try for most soft paywalls.

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Radical Proxy Built-in

Full page, paywall stripped

Loads the original page (styles and images intact) through our server, spoofing a Googlebot fetch and stripping paywall overlays. Use when Reader misses the layout.

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Archive.today

Community snapshots

Crowd-sourced permanent snapshots. Excellent for NYT, WSJ, FT, Bloomberg, The Atlantic and most hard paywalls.

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Wayback Machine

Internet Archive

archive.org's public archive. Great fallback when a snapshot exists but Archive.today doesn't have one.

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Google Referer

Arrive "from Google"

Opens the article as though you clicked it from Google search results — many metered sites unlock the first click.

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Freedium

Medium articles

Purpose-built reader for Medium and Medium-hosted publications.

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Use it responsibly. PaywallFree points you at publicly reachable copies (search-engine snapshots, archives, crawler-visible HTML). It's for readers who hit a wall on a single article — not a substitute for subscribing to journalism you rely on. If a publisher's work is worth your time, back it.
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