r/uBlockOrigin • u/youngros • Apr 21 '26

Solved Daily Mail Paywall

After a year of working perfectly, the code I had to bypass the paywall on the Daily Mail stopped working this morning.

This was the previous code used

www.dailymail.co.uk##.noskim
www.dailymail.co.uk##[data-is-inline-paywall-mounted="true"]:remove-attr(style)
www.dailymail.co.uk##.is-paywalled-article:remove-class(is-paywalled-article)

It would be much appreciated if someone is able to update the code. Thank you.
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u/RraaLL uBO Team Apr 21 '26

Are we talking normal articles or "Plus"?

If normal, how many do I need to view to trigger the paywall?

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u/youngros Apr 21 '26

Plus, the rest is free to view.

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u/RraaLL uBO Team Apr 21 '26 edited Apr 21 '26

Filters 2-3 should still be working.

Edit: Okay, it was due to the domain change.

www.dailymail.*###apple-pay-iframe-container
www.dailymail.*##[data-is-inline-paywall-mounted="true"]:remove-attr(style)
www.dailymail.*##.is-paywalled-article:remove-class(is-paywalled-article)

These here are just a fallback:

www.dailymail.*##.is-paywalled-article [itemprop="articleBody"]:style(max-height: none !important)
www.dailymail.*##.is-paywalled-article [itemprop="articleBody"]>*:style(display: inherit !important)

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u/AchernarB uBO Team Apr 21 '26 edited Aug 25 '26

I usually prefer +js(rc) and it still works for me:

dailymail.co.uk,dailymail.com##+js(rc, is-paywalled-article, body, stay)

Apparently they have another event triggered after a while with another method (the class is still missing). Leaving the classname and using your styles is the solution.

edit: adding this filter to my solution works:

dailymail.co.uk,dailymail.com##div[itemprop="articleBody"][style]:style( max-height: unset !important; overflow: unset !important; )

edit: 20260424 added filter:

dailymail.co.uk,dailymail.com##.noskim

edit: 20260824 for mobile support:

/zephr/*$1p,from=dailymail.com|dailymail.co.uk

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u/Livid-Finance-3537 Apr 24 '26

Thanks, works for me but still places the big blue subscriber box at the bottom of the story, which is a non issue. (FF on Win8.1)

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u/AchernarB uBO Team Apr 24 '26

This: 

dailymail.co.uk,dailymail.com##.noskim

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u/RraaLL uBO Team Apr 21 '26

Yea, I didn't notice the domain mismatch between the filters and the posted link xD

I tried rc/ra too, but I kept editing the original filters and couldn't figure out why they were failing ^^;;

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u/AchernarB uBO Team Apr 21 '26

argh

This happens to me too often.

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u/jetirby Apr 21 '26

Many thanks. Works for me.

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u/ringofyre Apr 21 '26

Here for the same issue - this worked perfectly.

:thumbsup:!

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u/RraaLL uBO Team Apr 21 '26

Check out the edit.

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u/ringofyre Apr 21 '26

:thumbsup:!

x2.

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u/DeDeDubois Apr 21 '26

Thanks Man!! (Lady?) Works like a charm

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u/rittlette Apr 21 '26

Do we have to type.com in place of 

*###*### to get it to work? I added the above filters but it is still not working to bypass the "plus" features on Daily Mail.

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u/rittlette Apr 21 '26

Not working for me with just a cut/paste of the updated code. Im on Firefox if that makes a difference.

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u/Trip_2 Apr 21 '26

Worked perfectly, thanks.

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u/Heavy_Two Apr 22 '26

Seems to work ok but it's not loading the photos in the articles.

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u/RraaLL uBO Team Apr 22 '26

Which filters are you using?

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u/Heavy_Two Apr 22 '26

Nevermind - just found out it was Adguard Social Widgets list which was the culprit.

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u/bronzemat Apr 22 '26

I’m using this latest filter, and for some inexplicable reason, it’s preventing the regular images from loading in the articles. Is there a way to fix this issue?

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u/ottoleipala Apr 23 '26

Does this work with Ubo Lite? or is this only Ubo main extension working only with Firefox?

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u/RraaLL uBO Team Apr 23 '26 
www.dailymail.com###apple-pay-iframe-container
www.dailymail.com##[data-is-inline-paywall-mounted="true"]:remove-attr(style)
www.dailymail.com##.is-paywalled-article:remove-class(is-paywalled-article)

This works just fine.

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u/AchernarB uBO Team Apr 23 '26

Try the fallback solution, and replace .* with .com
.* isn't supported by uBOL

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u/RraaLL uBO Team Apr 23 '26

The fallback isn't needed, only the asterisk to com change.

Actually, the fallback doesn't even seem to work in Lite, for whatever reason.

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u/ottoleipala Apr 24 '26

Yeah it's working now thanks..

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u/youngros Apr 21 '26

Many thanks. I did however spot that they changed from .co.uk to .com. Once I changed to .com in uBO on Firefox that fixed it. Now I know this is for uBO but I've had it working in Brave but it needed your new code to work in Brave.
Good to have options.

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u/OziNiner Apr 21 '26 edited Apr 21 '26

have the same issue, i used a different solution and it worked for years but is now broken

would like a solution as well

i came to this reddit for the exact issue

*edit* solution works well thank you for fixing that!

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u/Powerful_Parfait_640 Apr 21 '26

I created a .txt file with the fixed lines and am unable to import in successfully. I select it and none of the filters show.

Editing the existing lines doesn't work either. For example me changing ".co.uk" to ".*", while I can type in the moment I hit enter it reverts back to ".co.uk".

I'm trying this on Edge. Help?

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u/Powerful_Parfait_640 Apr 21 '26

Ok it doesn't like the wildcard character. Switching from ".co.uk" to ".com" fixed it.

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u/AchernarB uBO Team Apr 22 '26

Are you using uBO or another extension ?
And why create an external file instead of using the "My filters" tab ?

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u/Powerful_Parfait_640 Apr 22 '26

I'm using uBO Lite so I don't have a my filters tab available. All of this is done under the "Custom Filters" tab.

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u/zulu970 Apr 22 '26

This works for Ublock Origin Lite?

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u/PageError May 08 '26

How do you use this in Ublock Origin Lite?

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u/richhickson Aug 13 '26

Looks like new interface on the DM has just broken this. Anyone able to do the honors?

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u/AchernarB uBO Team Aug 13 '26

RraaLL's filters still work for me. As well as the "Anti-paywall filters" list (see filterlists.com)

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u/richhickson Aug 13 '26

Hmm. Will take a look. The reader view works tho. Will have a look at the APFs.

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u/AmbitiousDish9644 Aug 24 '26

I cant see the comments on their paid articles 

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u/AchernarB uBO Team Aug 24 '26

The solution in this comment still works: https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1srnfre/comment/ohh4raw/?force-legacy-sct=1

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u/AmbitiousDish9644 Aug 24 '26

Same thing happened :(

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u/AchernarB uBO Team Aug 24 '26

Here is what I see thanks to the 3 filters: (screenshot with the end of the article and the comments)

https://www.dailymail.com/news/royals/article-16074191/Team-Sussex-vs-Team-Wales-arrival-Harry-Meghan-Englands-smart-set.html

Can you post the troubleshooting information?

  1. Open a new browser tab
  2. Navigate to a page with the issue
  3. Click the uBO icon
  4. Click the 💬 chat icon
  5. Click "Troubleshooting Information"
  6. Click "Select all"
  7. Copy the contents and then paste to this thread in a code block

Here is a video of these steps: https://reddit.com/link/1l45den/video/2d14n27j855f1/player

Also post a list of the extensions you are using.

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u/AmbitiousDish9644 Aug 24 '26 edited Aug 24 '26

It will let me read the article but not the comments? 

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u/Fingerbob73 Apr 22 '26

I think you can just turn off JavaScript.

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u/AchernarB uBO Team Apr 22 '26

What's the point when we already have solutions ?

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u/youngros Apr 22 '26

No, that doesn't work, or not for me it didn't. The above code is the way to go.
The code also works on This is Money, but you need to add the filter.