This chrome extension gives you free access to unlimited Financial Times (https://www.ft.com) articles. I built it as an exercise to learn Chrome's manifest v3 declarativeNetRequest - the new way to manage or block network requests which will eventually deprecate webRequest.
All the logic lives in rules.json and performs 3 things:
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sets a
Referer: https://twitter.comheader on all ft.com requests, for which FT grants open access. -
drops
Set-Cookieresponse headers on ft.com - otherwise FT sets cookies to limit you to 1 article. -
sends a
Cookie: FTCookieConsentGDPR=truecookie on requests - this prevents FT from giving you a GDPR cookie popup.
I have no plans of publishing this on the Chrome web store. If you want to install this extension you may do so locally by:
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Cloning this repo
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Going into your chrome extension settings (
chrome://extensions/) and checking the "Developer mode" slider in the upper right corner -
Clicking the "Load unpacked" button that appeared in the upper left corner and selecting the folder you cloned this repo into.