Paywall Filter

Badges paywalled search results, except sites you already subscribe to.

No paywall bypassing, no scraping around anything — just honest filtering so you don't click into a result you can't actually read.

Why this exists

Kagi shipped a setting to hide paywalled links from search results entirely. The launch thread filled up fast with the same request: people who already pay for the New York Times, or the FT, or wherever, don't want those hidden — just everything they don't subscribe to. Kagi's toggle is all-or-nothing. This isn't.

What it does

On Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Kagi, and Brave Search results pages, it checks every result link against a curated list of commonly-paywalled domains and drops a small badge next to the ones that are gated — 🔒 hard paywall, 🔒 metered (a few free articles then it blocks you), or a lighter badge for soft/partial paywalls. Any domain you've added to your own subscribed-sites list stays unbadged.

Install

1. Download and unzip the latest release.
2. Go to chrome://extensions, turn on Developer mode (top right).
3. Click Load unpacked and select the unzipped folder.
4. Click the extension icon on any page you already subscribe to and hit "I subscribe to [domain]" — or manage the whole list from the extension's options page.

Chrome (and other Chromium browsers — Edge, Brave, etc.) only for now.

Known paywalled domains

The list lives in paywalled-domains.js and is curated, not exhaustive. Missing one you run into constantly? Open an issue or a PR — it's a one-line addition.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.

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If this saved you a click into something you can't read, buy me a coffee.