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互联网“免费午餐”时代落幕：新闻网站付费墙全面兴起，多种“绕行”方法应运而生

随着在线广告市场近年来持续萎缩，尤其在谷歌将AI摘要置于搜索前列之后，众多网站赖以生存的广告收入模式难以为继。为了寻求直接营收来源，全球新闻网站纷纷竖起“付费墙”，要求读者注册并缴纳月费才能阅读全文。付费墙主要分为两种：一种为“计量式”，允许读者在达到一定篇数前免费阅读；另一种则是“硬性付费墙”，即阅读任何一篇文章都需先付费。

从行业生存角度看，付费墙的普及有其合理性。当广告收入已不足以支撑新闻机构的运营，转向订阅制等直接收入渠道成为必然选择。支持有价值的新闻报道，尤其是本地新闻，值得鼓励。然而，对普通读者而言，偶尔因忘记密码、时间紧迫或暂时囊中羞涩而需要快速阅读一篇付费文章时，突破手段便显得必要。

值得注意的是，过去许多行之有效的“绕墙”技巧——如将标题粘贴到谷歌搜索后通过无痕窗口打开——如今多数已失效。目前较为可靠的突破方法包括：

首选利器：Archive.today
这是目前测试中最稳定、最高效的付费墙突破工具。该网站可对任意网页生成带时间戳的图文存档快照。读者只需将文章链接粘贴到搜索框，若已有存档可直接查看；若没有，可提交URL请求即时生成，通常仅需几分钟。此外，用户还可为Chrome浏览器安装扩展，一键生成存档并在新标签页中打开。不过需注意，该站点近期涉嫌网络钓鱼攻击，维基百科已禁止引用其链接。

安全备选：Ghost Archive
功能与Archive.today类似，但伦理争议较小。在Archive.today无法访问或不愿使用时，Ghost Archive可作备份。但经测试，其穿透能力稍弱且存量存档较少。

AI辅助新工具：smry.ai
该工具从互联网归档或谷歌缓存中调取文章全文，并额外提供AI生成的摘要。点击结果页的紫色“生成”按钮，即可快速获取文章核心观点，适合只想了解梗概或在决定是否细读前预览的读者。

技术流方案
对于懂些技术的用户，还有几种复杂方法可供尝试：其一，在浏览器中禁用JavaScript，可破解部分依赖脚本隐藏内容的网站，但可能导致页面加载异常；其二，使用VPN更改IP地址，可绕过如《华盛顿邮报》等按月限额的网站计数；其三，利用“检查元素”功能手动编辑网页HTML/CSS，删除订阅弹层，但此法已被部分网站强化拦截；此外，Android用户可尝试“Bypass Paywalls Clean”扩展配合Kiwi浏览器，iPhone用户则可借助Apple“快捷指令”App中的现成脚本。

完全合法且合乎道德的两条出路
若想避免游走于灰色地带，读者可先咨询当地图书馆是否提供在线报纸杂志的门户访问权限，许多系统已订阅此类服务，读者凭借书卡即可免费阅读；此外，部分媒体允许付费订户每月“赠送”有限数量的文章（如《华盛顿邮报》和《纽约时报》每月各10篇），向有此权限的亲友索取一篇文章的阅读权限也是可行之策。

中文翻译：

自由互联网的时代早已一去不复返：近年来，随着在线广告市场崩溃——很大程度上要归咎于谷歌将人工智能摘要置于前沿的改变——无数网站纷纷加上了付费墙。这意味着，如果你想阅读它们的文章，就必须注册并每月支付订阅费。有些网站采用“计量式”付费墙——即你可以免费阅读一定数量的文章，之后再要求付费——而另一些则采用硬性付费墙，哪怕只读一篇文章也得先掏钱。

付费墙主要存在于新闻网站，很大程度上是因为仅仅依靠广告收入已不再是可行的策略，迫使这些公司寻求直接收入来源，比如月度订阅。从这个意义上说，付费墙并非坏事——支持你认为有价值的新闻事业是件好事。至少，我希望你能支持那些你经常阅读的网站——尤其是本地新闻媒体。

但有时候，你就是需要快速绕过付费墙。也许你忘了密码，手机上没有保存，赶时间，或者手头拮据，并在心里发誓以后一定会订阅。如果符合以上某一种特殊情况，网上其实有很多绕过付费墙的方法——尽管已经不如从前那么多了。

许多曾经可靠的绕过付费墙的方法如今几乎完全失效了（为“把标题粘贴到谷歌搜索，然后在无痕窗口打开链接”这个老办法默哀一分钟吧）。下面讨论的方法更稳健——因此也更可能奏效。我先从我最喜欢的方法说起，这个方法在过去几年里一直很管用。但提醒一句：你今天可能成功地用上其中一种方法，但未来情况可能会改变，因为网站正在加紧封堵各种绕过手段。（本文会定期更新，因为有些方法会失效，而另一些新方法会冒出来。）

Archive.today是绕过付费墙最好、最可靠的选择

Archive.today是我找到的快速绕过付费墙最快、最可靠的方法，多年来我已在各种网站上成功使用它，即便其他方法来了又去，它始终稳定可靠。它是一个可以为你在搜索栏中粘贴的任何网站生成存档版本的网站。（可以把存档版本想象成对任意网站截图，附带时间戳——用网站自己的话说，就是一个“时间胶囊”。）Archive.today“会保存网页的文本和图形副本以确保更高的准确性”，并为你提供一个指向任何网页不可更改记录的短链接。是的没错——但额外的好处是，你经常可以利用这个功能绕过付费墙，毫无障碍地阅读整篇付费文章。

只需将文章链接粘贴到黑色的“我要在存档中搜索已保存的快照”栏中，你就会进入一个页面，可以查看之前存档的版本。如果你要绕过付费墙的文章还没有被存档，那就把网址输入红色的“我的网址是有效的，我想要存档其内容”栏中。网站随后会开始生成存档版本，通常只需要几分钟。一旦生成完毕，你会直接被带到这个存档版本页面，之后你可以通过从浏览器导航栏复制新网址来随时回访。

你还可以在Chrome中添加一个浏览器扩展，它会在浏览器工具栏中创建一个按钮，点击即可立即为任意网页生成存档快照。存档版本甚至会自动在新标签页中打开。

这个网站我只遇到过一两次失灵的情况。通常，我想读的任何内容都已经有现成的存档版本，但创建一个新版也只需要一两分钟。遗憾的是，我并不总是对它感到完全放心（更何况我本人更愿意在力所能及时为新闻付费）：近几个月来，该网站及其相关镜像站（包括archive.is和archive.ph）被卷入了大规模网络钓鱼攻击，导致维基百科禁止在其引用中使用该网站的链接。

Ghost Archive是更值得信赖但可靠性稍逊的替代方案

另一个运作方式与Archive.today类似的网站——少了（部分）伦理方面的顾虑——如果前者无法访问或你出于其他原因不想使用它，Ghost Archive值得一试。它有相同的界面，你可以搜索已存档的文章，或请求生成新的存档版本。在我的测试中，我发现它在应对更顽固的付费墙方面并不那么得心应手，而且由于它人气较低，你可能不太容易找到已经被存档好的目标页面，但它作为一个备份选项还是不错的。

另一个免费、简单、借助人工智能增强的绕过付费墙替代方案

我在浏览Reddit上“绕过付费墙”板块时发现了一个较新的工具——smry.ai，它的运作方式与Archive.today类似，会向你展示文章页面的缓存版本（据开发者称，数据来自Internet Wayback Machine或谷歌缓存），从而让你可以阅读全文。它的独特之处在于集成了人工智能：点击结果页面上的紫色“生成”按钮，即可获得一份由AI生成的文章要点摘要。在实践中，我发现这些摘要更像是社交媒体帖子而非提纲（例如，一篇关于近期针对唐纳德·特朗普总统暗杀未遂事件的7000字《纽约》杂志文章被压缩成了一段简短的文字），但如果你只是想了解大意——或者想决定是否要读完整篇文章——这算是一个不错的小功能。

解决付费墙问题的一些更复杂的方案

如果你愿意尝试比简单地复制粘贴更具技术性的方法，以下选项之一可能适合你。

在浏览器中禁用JavaScript

有些网站使用JavaScript来将内容隐藏在付费墙后面，你可以通过禁用浏览器中的JavaScript来绕过这些限制。请注意，禁用JavaScript可能会（而且一定会）让大多数网站出问题——有些网站可能让你无法查看评论，而另一些网站可能根本无法加载。但如果你只需要阅读文章内容，这值得一试。

理想情况下，你应该为此使用一个单独的浏览器，这样就不必反复启用和禁用JavaScript。选定备用浏览器后，请查阅我们关于在各种浏览器中禁用JavaScript的指南。

使用VPN

一些设有付费墙的网站，如《华盛顿邮报》，每个月会允许你免费阅读有限数量的文章，达到上限后就会竖起付费墙。你可以使用VPN更改IP地址，欺骗网站给予你更多免费额度。这个方法在那些完全不提供免费访问的网站上没有用，但值得一试，而且付费和免费的VPN都能奏效。

编辑网页上的几个元素

如果你懂一点HTML和CSS，就可以使用浏览器编辑元素来绕过某些付费墙。本质上，你是在编辑页面，移除那些将内容锁定在订阅后面的遮罩层。这就像拉开窗帘，欣赏窗外的美景。

这种方法对某些网站有效，但其他一些网站则增加了硬性阻止机制，只有登录付费账号才能显示文章。不过，还是值得试一次看看是否有效：

在任何网站上，右键点击文章最后可见句子下方的遮罩层，选择“检查元素”。这会打开一个控制台，你可以搜索相关的元素并将其隐藏或修改。确切的元素因网站而异，但通常标记为“display”、“paywall”或“subscribe”等。Reddit上有一个简洁的GIF演示，展示了如何操作。

在Android上使用付费墙绕过快捷方式

如果你想在Android手机上阅读付费墙文章，可以通过Bypass Paywalls Clean浏览器扩展绕过限制。这个扩展以前可用于Firefox，但已从Mozilla商店中移除。不过，你可以将其添加到其他浏览器中；Reddit用户推荐尝试Kiwi浏览器。

在iPhone上使用付费墙绕过快捷方式

我们列表中的最后一个方法仅适用于iPhone：苹果免费的“快捷指令”应用允许你在iPhone上运行自动化操作，其工具已被用来绕过各种网站的付费墙。这类快捷指令有很多，但未必都能适用于所有网站。你可以从尝试Bypass Paywall或Unpaywall开始。

两种完全合法且合乎道德的绕过付费墙的方法

查看当地图书馆是否提供访问权限

许多图书馆在线提供付费杂志和报纸订阅的访问权限。通常你需要前往图书馆网站，用图书证号码或账户信息登录，然后通过图书馆的门户网站间接访问不同的出版物。（例如，如果你住在加州马林县，你可以轻松免费阅读《华盛顿邮报》。）

全世界的图书馆系统多到数不清，你可能幸运地身处一个提供这种福利的系统，也可能没有，但值得一试；因为图书馆在为出版物付费，你甚至不需要感到内疚。（不确定你所在的图书馆系统是否有新闻门户？问问当地的图书管理员吧！）

向订阅者索要“赠阅文章”

这个方法可能不常能派上用场，但当你试图阅读那篇正在病毒式传播的付费文章时，不妨一试：许多出版物允许付费订阅者每月“赠送”一定数量的文章副本（例如，《华盛顿邮报》和《纽约时报》每月各允许赠送10篇文章）。如果你知道你姑姑订阅了《纽约时报》，问问她是否愿意偶尔送你一篇阅读，总没有坏处。

英文来源：

The era of the free internet is long over: As the online ad market has collapsed in recent years, largely thanks to changes Google has made to forefront AI summaries, countless websites have added paywalls. This means if you want to read their articles, you have to sign up and pay a monthly subscription fee. Some sites have a “metered” paywall—meaning you can read a certain number of articles for free before they ask for money—and others have a hard paywall, where you’ll have to pay to read even one article.
Paywalls are mostly a thing with news websites, largely because relying on advertising income alone isn’t a viable strategy anymore, forcing these companies to pursue direct revenue sources like monthly subscriptions. In that sense, paywalls aren't a bad thing—it’s wonderful to support journalism you find valuable. If nothing else, I hope you support the websites that you read regularly—especially your local news outlet.
But sometimes, you just need to get around a paywall quickly. Maybe you've lost your password, haven’t saved it on your phone, are in a rush, or are strapped for cash and swear to yourself that you’ll subscribe later. If one of these exceptions applies, there are many ways to bypass paywalls on the internet—though not nearly as many as there used to be.
Many once-reliable methods of bypassing paywalls have stopped working almost entirely (pour one out for pasting the headline into Google and opening the link in a private browsing window). The methods discussed below are more robust—and thus, more likely to work. I'll start with my favorite, which has served me well for the past few years. But a word of caution: You may be able to use one of these methods successfully today, but that could change in the future as websites clamp down on bypass methods. (This article is regularly updated as some methods stop working and others pop up.)
Archive.today is the best, most reliable option for bypassing paywalls
Archive.today is the fastest, most reliable way I've found to quickly bypass a paywall, and I've been using it successfully for years across a wide range of sites, even as other options have come and gone. It's a site that will create an archived version of any website you paste into the search bar. (Think of an archived version like taking a screenshot of any website, complete with a timestamp—a self-described “time capsule,” if you will.) Archive.today “saves a text and a graphical copy of the page for better accuracy” and gives you a short link to an unalterable record of any web page. Yes, yes—but as a bonus, you can often use this functionality to bypass a paywall and read an entire paywalled article without issue.
Just paste your article link into the black “I want to search the archive for saved snapshots” bar, and you'll be taken to a page where you can view earlier archived versions. If the article you’re trying to bypass isn’t already archived, then put the URL into the red “My URL is alive and I want to archive its content” bar. The site will then begin generating the archived version, which usually only takes a few minutes. You'll be sent straight to this archived version once it's ready, and you can come back to it later by copying the new URL from your browser's nav bar.
You can also add a browser extension to Chrome that will create a button in your browser toolbar you can click to instantly create an archived snapshot of any web page. The archived version will even automatically open up in a new tab.
I've only had this site fail me once or twice. Usually, there's already an existing archived version for anything I want to read, but creating a new one only takes a minute or two. Unfortunately, I don't always feel great about it (even beyond the fact that I prefer to pay for my news whenever I can): In recent months, the site and its related mirrors (including archive.is and archive.ph) have been implicated in a widespread phishing attack, prompting Wikipedia to ban its links from citations.
Ghost Archive is a more trustworthy but less reliable alternative
Another site that works similarly to Archive.today, minus (some of) the ethical considerations, Ghost Archive is worth trying if the former is offline or you don't want to use it for other reasons. It has the same interface where you can search for archived articles or request a new archived version be created. In my testing, I've found it isn't quite as adept at getting around more stubborn paywalls, and given it is less popular, you're less likely to find whatever page you're trying to access has already been archived for you, but it's a decent backup.
Another free, easy, AI-enhanced alternative to get around a paywall
A newer tool I found while poking around "get around a paywall" Reddit, smry.ai is a tool that works similarly to Archive.today, in that it shows you a cached version of the article page (pulled, according to the developer, from either the Internet Wayback Machine or Google cache), which allows you to read the entire thing. What sets this one apart is AI integration: Click the purple "generate" button on the results page to get an AI-generated summary of the article's key points. In practice, I found the summaries to be more akin to social media posts than an outline (for example, a 7,000-word New York Magazine article about the recent assassination attempts on the life of President Donald Trump was trimmed to a single short paragraph), but if you're just looking for the gist—or trying to decide if you want to read the entire article at all—it's a nice little addition.
More complex solutions to your paywall problems
If you're willing to try solutions that are a little more technical than a mere copy and paste, one of these options might work for you.
Disable JavaScript in your browser
Some websites use JavaScript to hide content behind paywalls, and you can circumvent those blocks by disabling JavaScript in your browser. Note that disabling JavaScript can (and will) break most websites—some may not let you view comments, while others may not load at all. But it’s worth trying if you just need to read the content of the post.
Ideally, you’d use a separate browser for this so that you don’t have to keep enabling and disabling JavaScript. Once you’ve chosen your secondary browser, check out our guide to disabling JavaScript in various ones.
Use a VPN
Some paywalled sites, like The Washington Post, will let you read a limited number of articles for free each month, then throw up the wall once you've hit the limit. You can use a VPN to change up your IP address and trick the site into giving you more freebies. This method won't help you on sites that don't offer any free access, but it's worth trying, and will work with both paid and free VPNs.
Edit a couple of elements on the webpage
If you understand a bit of HTML and CSS, you can edit elements using your browser to go past some paywalls. Essentially, you’re editing the page to remove the banners that lock content behind a subscription. It’s a lot like opening the curtains to reveal the nice view outside your window.
It works with some websites, but others have added a hard block that reveals the article only if you’ve signed in with a paid account. Still, it’s worth trying once to see if it works:
On any website, right-click the banner just below the last visible sentence of the article and select Inspect Element. This will open up a console where you can search for the offending elements and hide or change them. The exact element varies from site to site, but it’s often labeled display, paywall, or subscribe. Here’s a neat GIF on Reddit that shows you how to get it done.
Use a paywall bypass shortcut on Android
If you are trying to read a paywalled article on an Android phone, you can get around it with the Bypass Paywalls Clean browser extension. This extension used to be available for Firefox but has been removed from the Mozilla store. However, you can add it to a different browser; Reddit users recommend trying the Kiwi browser.
Use a paywall bypass shortcut on iPhone
The last method on our list works only on iPhones: Apple’s free Shortcuts app lets you run automation routines on your iPhone, and its tools have been used to bypass paywalls on various websites. There are plenty of these shortcuts, and they may all not work with all websites. Get started by trying Bypass Paywall or Unpaywall.
Two totally legal, ethical ways to get around paywalls
Check if your local library provides access
Many libraries offer access to paid magazine and newspaper subscriptions online. Typically you'll have to go to your library's website, log in with your card number or account details, and then access different publications indirectly, via the library's portal. (For example, if you live in Marin County, Calif., you can easily read the Washington Post for free.)
There are too many library systems out there to count, so you may or may not be lucky enough to be in one that offers this perk, but it's worth a shot; since the library is paying the publication for the service, you don't even need to feel guilty. (Not sure if your system has a news portal? Ask your local librarian!)
Ask a subscriber for a "gift article"
This one isn't likely to be feasible often, but it's worth a shot for when you're trying to read that one paywalled article that's going viral: Many publications allow paid subscribers to "gift" a copy of a certain number of articles every month (The Washington Post and the New York Times each allow gifting 10 articles per month, for example). If you know your aunt subscribes to The New York Times, it can't hurt to ask if she's willing to gift you the occasional read.