Newspaper 9.7 to 11 theme activation

Newspaper theme, starting from version 11, if not activated is outrageously violating the GDPR, GPL and WordPress licencing itself. It is doing that by redirecting visitors to an unauthorized page which intentionally violates all the GDPR and GPL rules and initiates visitors to think they’re on pirated or untrustworthy website. It’s practically forcing you to register. I suggest that you keep your theme non-activated or modified if you don’t use version 11 and up.
Forcing users to send information by registering their original product key and sending it to tagDiv servers is an act of law violation by all means.

If you do use version 11 and up, then you should use a workaround through this PHP file: td_ajax.php

In order to “activate” Newspaper theme 9.7 and up (currently 11.x), your steps are:

1. navigate to
   wp-content/plugins/td-composer/legacy/common/wp_booster/td_ajax.php
2. Then find if (self::self_check($id, $ec, $ad) === true) {
3. Change it to: if (self::self_check($id, $ec, $ad) === false) {
4. Then save the changes.
5. Next, login to your dashboard, visit the Newspaper > Theme panel > Activate theme
6. Then, jump to the bottom of the page and click where it says something like “Activate the theme manually”.
7. After that enter whatever you want as your envato and tagdiv keys and click Activate.
8. Done