Type of site | No JavaScript proxy browser |
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Owner | Thomas Millar |
URL | 12ft |
Commercial | No |
Registration | No |
12ft.io is a website that allows to selectively browse any site with JavaScript disabled. It also allows some online paywalls to be bypassed. It was created by Thomas Millar. [1]
In November 2023, host Vercel took the website offline. It was back online the following month. [2]
Some websites have blocked 12ft, such as Bloomberg, The New York Times and The Athletic .[ citation needed ]
The website's 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. [3]
On August 31, 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] [ better source needed ] The site came back online on September 1st, but was disabled again on September 10th. The site was available again as of September 11th, but was no longer showing cached versions of pages for NYTimes.com, instead displaying a message of "12ft has been disabled for this site". [5] On July 30, 2023, the site's security certificate appeared to be invalid. The certificate in question was issued by Cisco Umbrella Secondary SubCA lax-SG with an expiration date of August 3rd.
On November 2, 2023, the site only displayed an error 402 with a message "402: Payment Required. This Deployment has been disabled. Your connection is working correctly. Vercel is working correctly." Thomas Millar announced that provider Vercel had removed his account access. Vercel stated this was because 12ft broke their Terms of Service. [6] As of November 19, 2023, the site is up and running, and seems to be hosted on a new provider.
Alternatives to 12ft include: [7]
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