Kubero is very similar, 100% open source, and runs on any Kubernetes.

Not free, since you still need a Kubernetes somewhere.

But at least 100% open-source and selfhostable.

It covers most of Herokus features.

https://docs.kubero.dev/comparison-heroku/

Nice analogy. But with ladder, you're just wearing a Google shirt and get invited.

I can fully agree on that.

We live in a world, where we have more misinformation and poor journalism every day, and less money in the pockets of the people to afford paying for good journalism. So this might start a more open discussion on how to finance journalism. And while discussions are still going on, people can inform themselves with good journalism, which supports the democracy.

> And while discussions are still going on, people can inform themselves with good journalism, which supports the democracy.

That is a looters mentality, sorry to say that. Paywall jumping software is like robbing a disabled old veteran in public transport. It are the last blows to finish off what was once good journalism.

Thats not the full story. It works on many sites, but some (ft.com as an example) have more severe countermeasures to bypass the paywall. Therefore the ladders modifies the served HTML from origin to remove such.

Those rules still need to be build up. (by me or the OS-community)

Not sure about the paywalls. But it might be used for "drive by attacks" or phishing.

In deed it was. Sad it's gone.

One single downside was the intransparency. It was not clear which code was added or removed on the site you where looking at.

Yes, the one i provide is still pretty empty yet. I plan to build one that can be used as a starting point or as a default.

Those were Paywall bypassing tools. 12ft.io was shut down one week ago and 1ft.io still works.

But I feel a bit unconfident to let someone inject code to sites i view.