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How to unlock eNotes blurred text tips 2024

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Last Updated: October 2024

This is the ultimate guide on how to unlock eNotes blurred text which still works in year 2024.

In short, how to remove eNotes paywall.

This is another helpful content from the series, DiGiztal Bypass Paywalls Tips.

I hope these workable tips could help thousands of students trouble understanding a book, and how to get eNotes answers for free.

Plus unlock all the biographies, summaries, themes, characters, Questions &Answers, analyses, and critical essays.

In fact, there are already ample online articles on this topic of how to bypass the blurred text on eNotes.

Some of the suggestions are:

  • Sign up for the 48-hour free trial
  • Use Free eNotes Accounts generator
  • Inspect Element in Chrome (edit hh-box__answer__text redacted anon-hide obscured)
  • Disabling Of JavaScript
  • View from source page
  • Using browser extensions  

I find some of these tips on how to get rid of blurred text on eNotes do not work anymore.

Furthermore, some of the steps on how to view blurred eNotes text guides are dated and confusing.

For instance, there is this YouTube video tutorial which shows how to unlock notes on eNotes for free.

It works, but it could be simplified as I would show it below among one of the ways to overcome blurred eNotes text.In this post on how to unlock blurred text on eNotes, I would show you easier and workable tricks.

How to unlock eNotes blurred text

Basically there are five (5) main methods how to unblur eNotes.

  • Reader view mode
  • No style (disable CSS)
  • Google cached
  • Inspect element
  • Bypass paywalls extension

For a clearer understanding, this how to get past blurred eNotes tutorial is divided into into two main browsers: Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome.

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For those who truly unable to pay for its valuable content, you may want to use any of these ways to access eNotes for free.

Now, let's find out these proven methods how to get past eNotes blurred text.

MOZILLA FIREFOX BROWSER:

1. Reader view

This is the easiest way how to see blurred text on eNotes with just one click.

You do not have to install software to your browser.

The Reader View tool is readily available in Firefox browser.

It is located at the address bar (top right hand corner of your laptop screen).

Firefox Reader View Paywall Bypass

The Reader View gray color icon is a symbol of a page with lines, as shown above.

This is what you do:

When you come to the blurred text, click on this Reader View icon.

Immediately the blocked article will reload.

Now the full article appears without any blurred text.

NOTE: This method works for: Summary, Analysis, Biography, Themes, Characters, Questions & Answers and Critical Essay.


2. View No Style (disable CSS)

This is another easy trick to unlock eNotes blurred text.

You just disable the CSS (Cascading Style Sheets).

This method, the page layout is a bit messy, but you can view the full article, without any blurred text.

Click on "View" at the menu bar which is right at top of your computer screen.

A context menu will drop down.

Scroll down your cursor to "Page Style".

Firefox Reader View unblur eNotes

Then move the mouse cursor over to "No Style" and click on it.

As I have just mentioned, the page layout is a bit messed up, but you can still view the full clear article.

NOTE: This method works for: Summary, Analysis, Biography, Themes, Characters, Questions & Answers and Critical Essay.

It will reload the page.


3. Google cached page

This is another rather easy way to bypass eNotes blurred text,

Go to Google search results page to find the eNotes indexed page.

NOTE: This method DOES NOT work for "Questions & Answers" content.

For example, if you want to read Somerset Maugham The Rain summary page, you go to Google homepage and type in: eNotes the rain summary somerset maugham

You will see that page in Google search results.

Paste cache: in front of the URL.

So it looks like this: cache:https://www.enotes.com/topics/rain

It will open a new page, and click on the hyperlink "Text-only version".

Scroll down a little, and you can see the full article there.

This is the then blurred section of the article, which is now visible, after the remark: "Already a member? Log in here".

unblock blurred eNotes articles

To confirm this visible text is precisely from the blurred section, I checked it with the search box.

Right enough, it highlighted it as the blurred section, as seen below.

Overcome Blurred eNotes Text

NOTE: This method works for: Summary, Analysis, Biography, Themes, Characters and Critical Essay.

4. Firefox Developer Tools

I do it differently from the YouTube tutorial which I have mentioned earlier above.

With this method, you can see the full blurred text right away.

This is what you do:

At the blurred text, right click on it. 

If you right click, a context menu will pop up, then click on "Inspect(Q)".

You can also get rid off eNotes blurred text through the Firefox Developer Tools.

Inspect Element Tools Firefox

Look at the line highlighted in blue color with this code: class="o-rte-text".

Web Developer Tools unblur eNotes

Click on the three dots next to it as shown above.

It will drop down to show more code.

Scroll down and look for the line which looks something like this:

<div class="_c80783ea">

Double click on the characters: _c80783ea,

unblur eNotes Firefox

Then delete away any one of the nine characters will do.

For my example, I deleted the underscore character, now it's: c80783ea.

Now press the "Enter" key.

Instantly the blurred text changes to visible text right away. 

Firefox Web Developer Tools eNotes

5. Bypass Paywalls Clean extension

MOZILLA FIREFOX BROWSER:

This is an easy way to get past the blur on eNotes, but you need to install a third party software onto your browser.

Read the full instructions how to install Bypass Paywalls Clean extension for Firefox and Chrome.


GOOGLE CHROME BROWSER:

1. Reader view mode

Google Chrome browser has a reader view tool like Firefox and it is called Reader Mode.

If your Google Chrome Reader Mode is still not enabled, then this is how to do it.

Paste the following line to the address bar of your Chrome and it will open a new page where you can enable it.

chrome://flags/#enable-reader-mode

Click on the drop down menu, and select "Enabled".

Click the "Relaunch" button at the bottom to relaunch your browser.

Now, your Chrome has Reader Mode is enabled.

You should see the gray color Reader Mode icon (as seen below) at the address bar.

Chrome Reader Mode Paywall Bypass

How to use Chrome reader mode

It is similar to Mozilla Firefox browser Reader View, as explained above.

When you come to the blurred eNotes text article, click on the Reader Mode icon at the address bar.

The gray color icon will change to blue color, and the redacted article now appears in full.

Unlock Blur Text eNotes


NOTE: This method works for: Summary, Analysis, Biography, Themes, Characters, Questions & Answers and Critical Essay.


2. Disable Chrome css with inspect element

Chrome browser does not have the disable Cascading Style Sheets built-in tool.

But you can still do it via Inspect Element.

This is what you do:

Right click on the eNote blurred text page.

A context menu pops up, click on "Inspect". 

disable Chrome CSS

The Developer Tools will appear on your computer screen.

Scroll up and locate the head tags: <head>...</head>, and right-click on it.

A context menu pops up, then click on "Delete element".

unblur eNotes delete element

Instantly the
blurred eNotes text changes to visible text.

The page design layout is not proper, so you need to scroll down a little to read the article. 

NOTE: For Firefox users, you can also use this method as well.

Instead of showing "Delete element" in the context menu, for Firefox it shows "Delete Node".

Firefox Delete Node eNotes

You click on "
Delete Node" to unblur eNotes text. 

By the way, if you want to use a browser extension to disable Chrome CSS, then install "Unstyler". 

To disable the blurred text with this extensionclick on its icon on the toolbar.

3. Google cached page

This trick is the same as the tip using Google Cached Page for Firefox browser.

Refer to the tutorial above.

NOTE: This method works for: Summary, Analysis, Biography, Themes, Characters, Questions & Answers and Critical Essay.

But, it DOES NOT work for "Questions & Answers" content.

4. Web inspector developer tools

This tip is the similar to the Firefox Developer Tools as explained above.

But instead you use the Chrome Web Inspector Developer Tools to look for a nine-character code.

Then you just remove or delete any one of the nine characters, and then you press on the "Enter" key to unlock the eNotes blurred text.


5. Bypass Paywalls Clean extension

The method of using the extension to unblur eNotes text is the same as what I have explained above for Firefox.

Get the Chrome extension together with it installation guide here.

This is another browser extension to remove the eNotes blurred text for Google Chrome:
Unblur eNotes

These are are the various tried-and-tested ways how to get past eNotes blurred text for free, without having to sign up for an account.

Remember to share with those students who really could not afford eNotes subscription.