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Bug#1053256: marked as done (ITP: bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean -- Firefox browser plugin to bypass various paywalls)

Your message dated Sat, 3 Feb 2024 15:29:21 -0500
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has caused the Debian Bug report #1053256,
regarding ITP: bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean -- Firefox browser plugin to bypass various paywalls
to be marked as done.

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Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org>
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org

* Package name    : bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean
  Version         : 3.3.5.0
  Upstream Contact: https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234
* URL             : https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean
* License         : MIT
  Programming Lang: Javascript 
  Description     : Firefox browser plugin to bypass various paywalls

Add-on allows you to read articles from (supported) sites that implement a
paywall. You can also add a domain as custom site and try to bypass the
paywall.
.
Note: this plugin may leak information about your web browsing based on the
techniques used to bypass paywalls. For example, for some sites it will load
text from Google's webcache, thereby letting Google know that you read a
certain article. The plugin only operates on sites that you opt-into.


I use this package on both firefox and chromium, and would welcome this
to be co-maintained by Debian Mozilla Extension Maintainers if they're
interested. I've already got a working package, but I'm still trying to
figure out whether we really need separate source packages for the firefox
and chromium plugins.

--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message --- FTP Master rejected my upload due to legality concerns (specifically, "the owner of the content behind the paywall has a clear intention. 
At least in Germany it is not allowed to bypass such mechanism").

I decided not to argue, for two reasons:
1) I'm just not familiar with German law, and
2) The impetus for packaging the extension was the removal of it from Mozilla's extension repository (https://www.ghacks.net/2023/04/20/mozilla-removes-bypass-paywalls-clean-extension-from-its-add-repository/); however, it's now back in Mozilla's repository via 
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bypass-paywalls-clean-d/
3) And, though it wasn't known at the time, is particularly relevant now - Google is dropping their cache, per https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/google-search-kills-off-cached-webpages/. A lot of the extension's functionality works by displaying article text from Google's cache. It's unclear if and how this will affect the extension.
As such, I'm closing this ITP and documenting it as software that can't be packaged for Debian.
On Sat, 30 Sep 2023 03:55:11 -0400 Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net> wrote: 
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org>
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org

* Package name    : bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean
  Version         : 3.3.5.0
  Upstream Contact: https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234
* URL             : https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean
* License         : MIT
Programming Lang: Javascript Description : Firefox browser plugin to bypass various paywalls 

Add-on allows you to read articles from (supported) sites that implement a
paywall. You can also add a domain as custom site and try to bypass the
paywall.
.
Note: this plugin may leak information about your web browsing based on the
techniques used to bypass paywalls. For example, for some sites it will load
text from Google's webcache, thereby letting Google know that you read a
certain article. The plugin only operates on sites that you opt-into.


I use this package on both firefox and chromium, and would welcome this
to be co-maintained by Debian Mozilla Extension Maintainers if they're
interested. I've already got a working package, but I'm still trying to
figure out whether we really need separate source packages for the firefox
and chromium plugins.

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