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And it ain’t hard for Desktop Browsers. Just install <a href="https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome">a addon</a> in your favorite Desktop Browser.</p> <p>Unfortunately this didn’t work on a Android or iPhone phone. Nor on Sailfish OS with its Android emulation. Because over there browsers like Chrome and Chromium don’t allow extensions to be installed. Firefox does have some limited support for addons, but it can’t open local XPI files. Its addon menu doesn’t contain the addon and the addon website for it sees the running browser as incompatible.</p> <p>Luckily you have Kiwi Browser, which is a Chrome based browser that did not disable extensions to be installed.</p> <p>Once Kiwi is installed you can go to either chrome://extensions or kiwi://extensions, enable Developer mode and then open the zip file as explained in the <a href="https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome/blob/master/README.md">Readme.md</a>.</p> <p>ps. 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