12ft

12ft.io is a website that allows online paywalls to be bypassed. It was created by Thomas Millar and Seron.[1][2] The name is based on the phrase "show me a 10 foot wall and I'll show you a 12 foot ladder." It bypasses paywalls by pretending to be a search engine crawler when requesting a webpage. Websites with paywalls often allow access to search engine crawlers to ensure their pages appear in search engines.[3] Still, some websites block 12ft, such as Bloomberg and The New York Times.

12ft
Type of site
Paywall bypass
OwnerThomas Millar & Seron
URL12ft.io
Commercialno
Registrationno

Outage history

On 31 August 2022, the site was offline, with the hosting provider displaying the error message of "DEPLOYMENT DISABLED," and the HTTP 451 status code, meaning "Unavailable For Legal Reasons."[4] The site came back online on 1 September, but was disabled again on 10 September. The site was available again as of 11 September, but was no longer showing cached versions of pages for NYTimes.com, instead displaying a message of "12ft has been disabled for this site".

References
  1. Martin, Alexander. "Paywall-breaking tool 12ft asks users to subscribe to cover costs". Sky News. Retrieved 2022-04-08.
  2. Sobiraj, Lars (2021-10-07). "12ft.io hilft beim Überwinden von PayWalls". Tarnkappe. Retrieved 2022-04-08.
  3. Danielle (2022-02-21). "12ft.io is Your Friend for Bypassing Paywalls. But is That Okay?". Leaf&Core. Retrieved 2022-04-08.
  4. "451: DEPLOYMENT_DISABLED". 12ft.io. Archived from the original on 31 August 2022. Retrieved 1 September 2022. This Deployment has been disabled. Your connection is working correctly. Vercel is working correctly.


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