![]() A website with a soft paywall loads the entire article into the browser and then puts a curtain over the content by visually abstracting it with a popup or an overlay. Just don't come looking for me when they get around to starting a 12-Step program for internet addicts and your family holds an intervention, forcing you to start attending at that point, you're on your own. Websites with a hard paywall, on the other hand, don’t load any content until verifying that you are a subscriber. Can you imagine? You really can't, it has to be experienced to be believed. ![]() This little extension puts tabs you haven't gotten back to in a while into hibernation, freeing the memory and letting your browser find its second wind. But with The Great Suspender those days can finally fade into being distant memories. I also know that you constantly have to be mindful of how many tabs you leave open because Blink uses an obscene amount of system memory just at idle, and with a couple dozen tabs open it can start to lag like a car running out of gas. ) I know you use Chrome or a browser built on its Blink rendering engine (Opera, Vivaldi, etc.) at least part of the time, it's unavoidable. If you fit the above criterion and haven't, then sit down and allow me to become your new favorite person for awhile. Mello's Experience I don't talk about this extension enough, probably because the little narcissist I keep locked away in the dungeon of my psyche naturally assumes that everyone on the Internet is a "20 tabs open or bust" user like me and has already found it.
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