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My extension, which was just a script block and some CSS tweaks was banned as it was a paywall bypass for a popular news site in Australia.

Fair enough according to their policy but I couldn’t help feeling disappointed when I got the email as the extension was quite popular at the time.



Adblock: OK.

Paywall bypass: Not OK.

Hmm...


Yeah I know right?

The reason given was:

> We don't allow products or services that facilitate unauthorized access to content on websites that circumvents paywalls.

The functionality from the extension was roughly possible with a set of adblock rules anyway, I just packaged it up for the less technically inclined.




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