Developed by magnolia1234, the extension uses techniques such as clearing cookies and showing content from web archives.

[2][3] The extension was originally released on GitLab before it was removed in April 2024, when a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown notice was filed against its source code repository.

[4] Subsequently, magnolia1234 migrated Bypass Paywalls Clean to GitHub, where it was targeted by another DMCA takedown notice submitted by the News Media Alliance, resulting in GitHub restricting downloads of the software and its 3,879 forks in August 2024.

[2][5] The extension supports Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome.

[6] Due to a conflict with Google's rules, Bypass Paywalls Clean is not published on the Chrome Web Store.