You can use the latest version of wallabagger on Firefox for Android! Send the content from a paywall site to your wallabag, like you'll do it on desktop. ☺
You can use the latest version of wallabagger on Firefox for Android! Send the content from a paywall site to your wallabag, like you'll do it on desktop. ☺
It might have been noticed and discussed in the past but in case you don't know:
Wallabag — an open-source alternative to Pocket with a paid offering that can store copies of web pages for reading later or archival — is actively trying to escape legitimate mitigations typically put in place by website owners to restrict bot traffic.
Wallabag's crawler will happily try to pretend it is a human visitor instead of saying, you know, the truth, because it helps bypassing said mitigations.
For the same reasons, it will proudly pretend it's coming from a Google Result page.
And when confronted about this behaviour the team will act like there's nothing wrong.
If these tactics sounds familiar to you, that might be because that's usually what shady bots or AI crawlers do to extract valuable work on the web and sell it for profit. Though we know to expect nothing from big tech, Wallabag presents themselves as an ethical alternative and even say on their website:
because your privacy is important, we don’t resell your data. We live solely on your subscriptions.
But I guess only paying customers deserve privacy and control on their data. So it's probably fine to grab and resell other people's work without permission for their paid offering?
It's not the scandal of the century. On the contrary, it's quite common. If anything, you can treat this as an example of the general lack of understanding and/or care regarding consent that goes rampant in open source communities.
They will pretend they care until they realize they have to put in some effort or change their plans.
Even Google, Bing and Facebook announce themselves with a meaningful User Agent, and honor robots.txt directives :')
CW for sysadmins: chaotic energy / puzzling actions by a self-hosting newbie
Mentally tired after the week I've had.
I must have installed/uninstalled #Sharkey at least 9 times... and even when I got it to work it proved to be a total lemon.
Ditto for #Wallabag (paid plan on their server) and my self-hosted #Linkwarden.
🦇 This is my self-hosting cursed week 👻
I finally got Sharkey to work because I switched to a managed instance (https://calckey.world). And then I got my collection of links to work on #Linkwarden when I switched to their managed instance (there's a clear pattern here, LOL).
Then yesterday I tried CasaOS. A little too simple for my taste and with NO security in place / no instruction to add Let's Encrypt certs (as far as I could tell). When I read it's a Chinese project I kind of bolted (no offense to them, but I like to keep my stuff in Europe).
Then today I tried Cloudron and could not set it up.
Then I spun up another Ubuntu server to manually install Ghost v6 and couldn't figure out how to configure the caddy file.
Since Wednesday I must have started and stopped at least 7 servers on #Hetzner. My usage is still ridiculously low (1.19 Euros for the past 30 days) but I'm afraid I'll get flagged for suspicious behavior, LOL. I promise I'm not shady, I'm just an awkward newbie.
In all this, I am now EXTREMELY GRATEFUL for how easy and clear it is to set up a #YunoHost system.
The security they offer right off the bat is awesome... as well as the clear instructions about how to edit DNS records, install Let's Encrypt certificates and the whole nine yards.
YUNOHOST has no equivalent when it comes to empowering newbies and I'm just so so grateful to them... and I look forward to writing a step-by-step installation guide for newbies.
Apologies to sysadmins if this post had triggered you. I completely understand its chaotic energy... to be fair it's the first time in 10 months that I attempt to do so many things.
Anyway, off to get dressed for Halloween now.
Wishing you all a lovely evening and weekend 🎃
CW for sysadmins: chaotic energy / puzzling actions by a self-hosting newbie
Mentally tired after the week I've had.
I must have installed/uninstalled #Sharkey at least 9 times... and even when I got it to work it proved to be a total lemon.
Ditto for #Wallabag (paid plan on their server) and my self-hosted #Linkwarden.
🦇 This is my self-hosting cursed week 👻
I finally got Sharkey to work because I switched to a managed instance (https://calckey.world). And then I got my collection of links to work on #Linkwarden when I switched to their managed instance (there's a clear pattern here, LOL).
Then yesterday I tried CasaOS. A little too simple for my taste and with NO security in place / no instruction to add Let's Encrypt certs (as far as I could tell). When I read it's a Chinese project I kind of bolted (no offense to them, but I like to keep my stuff in Europe).
Then today I tried Cloudron and could not set it up.
Then I spun up another Ubuntu server to manually install Ghost v6 and couldn't figure out how to configure the caddy file.
Since Wednesday I must have started and stopped at least 7 servers on #Hetzner. My usage is still ridiculously low (1.19 Euros for the past 30 days) but I'm afraid I'll get flagged for suspicious behavior, LOL. I promise I'm not shady, I'm just an awkward newbie.
In all this, I am now EXTREMELY GRATEFUL for how easy and clear it is to set up a #YunoHost system.
The security they offer right off the bat is awesome... as well as the clear instructions about how to edit DNS records, install Let's Encrypt certificates and the whole nine yards.
YUNOHOST has no equivalent when it comes to empowering newbies and I'm just so so grateful to them... and I look forward to writing a step-by-step installation guide for newbies.
Apologies to sysadmins if this post had triggered you. I completely understand its chaotic energy... to be fair it's the first time in 10 months that I attempt to do so many things.
Anyway, off to get dressed for Halloween now.
Wishing you all a lovely evening and weekend 🎃
Redesigning the #wallabag interface
https://github.com/wallabag/wallabag/discussions/8467
Redesigning the #wallabag interface
https://github.com/wallabag/wallabag/discussions/8467
FYI: KOReader just got a version update to 2025.08 nicknamed "Parasol" and the inline/OTA update for my Kobo Libra 2 ereader went fine. It should reach F-Droid at some point soon for Android-based devices (Boox, older Tolino, etc.). Wallabag seems fine with the update though I didn't check all of the installed plugins.
https://github.com/koreader/koreader/releases
#KOReader #ereader #kobo #tolino #boox #fdroid #books #wallabag
FYI: KOReader just got a version update to 2025.08 nicknamed "Parasol" and the inline/OTA update for my Kobo Libra 2 ereader went fine. It should reach F-Droid at some point soon for Android-based devices (Boox, older Tolino, etc.). Wallabag seems fine with the update though I didn't check all of the installed plugins.
https://github.com/koreader/koreader/releases
#KOReader #ereader #kobo #tolino #boox #fdroid #books #wallabag
In May, when Mozilla announced the shutdown of Pocket, I wrote a post about what I wanted from such service and shared my research into a few options.
I ended up choosing @wallabag and I've been really happy with my choice. It found its place as a perfect drop-in replacement for my workflow and I didn't miss a beat during the migration.
In May, when Mozilla announced the shutdown of Pocket, I wrote a post about what I wanted from such service and shared my research into a few options.
I ended up choosing @wallabag and I've been really happy with my choice. It found its place as a perfect drop-in replacement for my workflow and I didn't miss a beat during the migration.
@japipes What's the difference between @wallabag and @linkwarden? I'm using #Wallabag for years now.
📬 È uscita la nuova newsletter dei Devol
Mozilla dice addio a #Pocket: una riflessione sul futuro dei servizi online e sull’importanza di scegliere alternative libere come #Readeck o #Wallabag.
✉️ La newsletter di Devol spiega in modo semplice e diretto il Fediverso e come vivere online senza dipendere dai Big Tech.
Ci si iscrive qui 👉 https://newsletter.devol.it/
Messaggio pubblicato anche sul gruppo Open Source, seguibile qui: @opensource
📬 È uscita la nuova newsletter dei Devol
Mozilla dice addio a #Pocket: una riflessione sul futuro dei servizi online e sull’importanza di scegliere alternative libere come #Readeck o #Wallabag.
✉️ La newsletter di Devol spiega in modo semplice e diretto il Fediverso e come vivere online senza dipendere dai Big Tech.
Ci si iscrive qui 👉 https://newsletter.devol.it/
Messaggio pubblicato anche sul gruppo Open Source, seguibile qui: @opensource
Pocket will shut down July 8, 2025.
Which alternative to Pocket should I choose?
As @TechCrunch said few months ago, @wallabag « is a strong competitor with article-saving tools and features as good as what Pocket offers. »
https://wallabag.it/en/blog/2025/06/23/which-alternative-to-pocket-should-i-choose/
> wallabag.it is powerful, private, hosted in Europe and affordable.
#wallabag #pocket#alternatives #shutdown #opensource #foss #readitlater
Apéro wallabag à Paris le jeudi 17 juillet 2025 au bar Chez Jean-Claude, rue Vandamme 🍻🥤
Des autocollants wallabag seront disponibles 😊 Vous aurez l'occasion de croiser presque toute l'équipe qui maintient le projet, alors aucune raison d'éviter ce rendez-vous.
Si vous pensez être de la partie, pensez à remplir le sondage de participation : https://framadate.org/6Ay2dR4GHKA8Qn9z.
Billet de blog : https://wallabag.org/news/20250627-apero-wallabag/
Our wallabagger extension (for Firefox or Chrome) has now its own website: https://wallabagger.wallabag.org/ with a great documentation.
Good job @simounet!
Our wallabagger extension (for Firefox or Chrome) has now its own website: https://wallabagger.wallabag.org/ with a great documentation.
Good job @simounet!
wallabag is now available on @fsf website
