Is RemovePaywall safe?

Short answer: yes. RemovePaywall is a free web tool with no login, no ads, and no cross-site tracking. Here is exactly what it does and doesn't do, so you can judge for yourself.

No account, no downloads

The web tool needs no signup and installs nothing — you paste a link and read. The optional browser add-on is a thin launcher (it just opens the reader), available from Firefox Add-ons for desktop and Android.

No ads, no cross-site tracking

There are no ads in the reader and no third-party ad or tracking cookies. Analytics are first-party and aggregate — counts, not profiles — and we dropped Google Analytics entirely. See the privacy page.

What it does with your link

When you paste a URL, the server fetches that public page, extracts the article text, and if needed checks public archives (archive.today, the Wayback Machine). It never touches your accounts, passwords, or other tabs.

On hard walls

Where the text is never sent to logged-out readers, the full article comes through a public archive copy, which we check automatically. We publish real per-site success rates rather than claiming to beat everything.

Live success rates

Unlike other tools, RemovePaywall publishes how often it works for each outlet, measured from real use. See the live list.