Remove BBC News Paywall
Paste a link from BBC News: we try the live page first in a clean reader view, then archived copies on archive.today and the Wayback Machine. Free, no login.
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BBC.com asks readers in the US to pay for most news articles; elsewhere the same pages are free. We fetch the article from outside the US, where the full text is served, and show it in a clean reader view.
How to read BBC News without paying
- Copy the full BBC News article URL.
- Paste it above and press Remove Paywall.
- We show a clean reader view; use the Full page toggle or Open original if you prefer.
FAQ
Paste the BBC News article URL into the box above and press Remove Paywall. RemovePaywall tries to read the article from the page, and if it can't, checks archive.today and the Wayback Machine.
You don't need a hack — paste the BBC News link above and RemovePaywall tries the article text on the page, then public archives (archive.today, the Wayback Machine).
Yes — RemovePaywall is free and needs no login. It surfaces publicly archived copies and the article text already present on the page.
It reads the article from the page when the text is there, and otherwise looks for a full copy on archive.today and the Wayback Machine — all in one step. Most BBC News articles are only lightly gated, so the reader view clears them directly.