About: 12ft

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12ft.io is a website that allows online paywalls to be bypassed. It was created by Thomas Millar. The name is based on the phrase "show me a 10 foot wall and I'll show you a 12 foot ladder." It bypasses paywalls by pretending to be a search engine crawler when requesting a webpage. Websites with paywalls often allow access to search engine crawlers to ensure their pages appear in search engines.

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  • 12ft és un servei per accedir a webs que bloquegen la lectura pública, lliure i gratuïta de pàgines web amb eines com murs de pagament. Per a complir aquesta funció el servei aprofita les còpies accessibles i llegibles que aquestes pàgines web ofereixen al servei de crawling de Google. El seu lema "Show me a 10ft paywall, I’ll show you a 12ft ladder" es basa en la frase "Show me a ten-foot wall and I'll show you an eleven-foot ladder" de l'obra All I Want To Know Is Where I'm Going To Die So I'll Never Go There de Peter Bevelin. Aquest servei fou creat per Thomas Millar. (ca)
  • 12ft.io is a website that allows online paywalls to be bypassed. It was created by Thomas Millar. The name is based on the phrase "show me a 10 foot wall and I'll show you a 12 foot ladder." It bypasses paywalls by pretending to be a search engine crawler when requesting a webpage. Websites with paywalls often allow access to search engine crawlers to ensure their pages appear in search engines. On 31 August 2022, the site was offline, with the hosting provider displaying the error message of "DEPLOYMENT DISABLED," and the HTTP 451 status code, meaning "Unavailable For Legal Reasons." The site came back online on 1 September, but was disabled again on 10 September. The site was available again as of 11 September, but was no longer showing cached versions of pages for NYTimes.com; instead displaying a message of "12ft has been disabled for this site". (en)
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  • Thomas Millar (en)
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  • Paywall bypass (en)
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  • 12ft.io is a website that allows online paywalls to be bypassed. It was created by Thomas Millar. The name is based on the phrase "show me a 10 foot wall and I'll show you a 12 foot ladder." It bypasses paywalls by pretending to be a search engine crawler when requesting a webpage. Websites with paywalls often allow access to search engine crawlers to ensure their pages appear in search engines. (en)
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  • 12ft (ca)
  • 12ft (en)
  • 12ft (pt)
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