One article should not require a subscription, an account, and your tracking consent. 13ft is a self-hosted alternative to the defunct 12ft.io that fetches web articles the way a search-engine crawler receives them, then shows you the clean page without paywall walls, ad clutter, and pop-up nonsense attached. Paste a link into the single input, or better, install the companion bookmarklet: one click on any article page rewrites the address to your own server, and the reading copy comes back from infrastructure you control. Because it is yours, there is no third-party service logging every article you read, no central site that can be taken down and strand the habit, and nobody selling a premium tier of unblocking. It handles the stubborn cases with a loading page and multiple fallback retrieval methods that kick in when the first approach fails, ships localised interface strings in several languages, and the whole thing is one small application that runs from a container and sits politely behind a reverse proxy. Casual readers reclaim the occasional long-form piece; researchers and archivists get a reproducible way to fetch the same copy a search index saw. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.