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I installed the firefox addon, and was hoping that it can deal with paywalled content. It seems to me that lurnby is accessing the content from the server side and got nothing.

If lurnby could access the current DOM in the current browser tab via the browser addon and extract the content via readability.js, I am willing to be a paying customer. I believe this is technically possible.

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Hey, thanks. I'll look into that. The way I've been personally dealing with paywalled content is just copy and paste. I use the "manual" option from "add content" and then save it that way.

Alternatively, I also email things to the app - the subject becomes the title, the body becomes the article.

But yeah, considering that the goal is to reduce friction, the manual work isn't ideal, but it gets the job done.

I'll try to take a look at what's possible with getting the current dom.

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