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Ladder

Bypass paywalls as 12ft.io does

E-books & Media Library ★ 9.2k stars Easy setup GPL-3.0-only

Selfhosted alternative to 12ft.io. and 1ft.io. Proxy to remove CORS headers and modify HTML

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Strengths

  • Released under the GPL-3.0-only license
  • Easy to set up — beginner-friendly
  • Mature project with 9.2k GitHub stars
  • Written in Go

Is Ladder secure?

OSV.dev has no published security advisories for Ladder's repository. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

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SelfHostIndex: 90 · excellent

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