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If this is all it's doing then you could also just use this extension: https://requestly.com/

Create a rule to replace user agent with "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)"

I just tried it and seems to work.

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I tried "User Agent Switcher" since it doesn't require a login. Washingtonpost.com blocked me, and NYT won't load article contents.

It used to be a good extension. Now it is crapware tied to web services. I don't want any web services, I don't want seeing ads about paid features, I want a free extension working absolutely locally and not phoning home.

This piece of crap is, unfortunately, unfit.

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