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The Economist limits the number of articles you can read in a week, so it's not a total paywall. The number of articles you have read in a week is stored in a c
by mastazi 10y ago
The Economist limits the number of articles you can read in a week, so it's not a total paywall. The number of articles you have read in a week is stored in a cookie, as a reader of HN I think you now know what to do :-)
Please note, however, that if you clear your cookies several times in a row, they end up identifying your machine in some other way (I think IP based? But that wouldn't work for very busy IPs, e.g. busy workplace with many employees, so maybe it's IP and amount of traffic over time?).
Disclaimer: I am a paying subscriber since 2010 and have tried the above just out of curiosity.
- eridius 10y agoWhat's the limit? This is the third economist article I've loaded in over a month and it's already paywalled. Edit: I suppose the simple answer is "3 articles", but that just seems like a rather low limit to me, hence my question. I'm wondering if maybe their detection is simply bad (e.g. maybe my browser reloaded an article and it counts that as an additional read?)