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How do you bypass the economist's pay wall? Googling it doesn't seem to work.

by libeclipse 10y ago

kchoudhu 10y ago
Incognito mode, and then google the article.
nickez 10y ago
Use a different browser worked for me.
maskedinvader 10y ago
using incognito mode on firefox seems to work for me. I got a 'youve hit your 10 article limit' msg otherwise
jasonkostempski 10y ago
I wish HN would shun pay wall sites, even if there's a workaround available. It's clear they don't want you reading their stuff unless you're a subscriber, respect their wishes.
- jmts 10y ago
  I've been pondering a self-imposed boycott of websites with paywalls, and ads that interrupt user experience. As time goes on I am valuing my time more and more, and that five second delay mid-read (that costs me another ten to find where I was up to) when I move my cursor off the current window and end up with a pop-up, or some ad mid-article that disappears half-way resulting in a quarter screen shift in content is becoming increasingly frustrating. Of course the flip-side is coming up with a better way. I haven't yet thought of anything glaringly obvious, but surely it involves making people happy, and not pestering them and treating them as just another set of eyes.
  - jasonkostempski 10y ago
    "I've been pondering a self-imposed boycott of websites with paywalls, and ads that interrupt user experience." I made an FF add-on for myself for that exact purpose, here's a comment thread about it from the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13949693 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13949693
ddinh 10y ago
You can block all cookies on the website if you want a paywall bypass that works without needing incognito - an extension like uMatrix [1] does this persistently (click on the plugin icon when your browser is navigated to The Economist, then click on the bottom half of the "cookie" box in the "all" row. The column should turn red, indicating that cookies are blocked). [1] https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix

How do you bypass the economist's pay wall? Googling it doesn't seem to work.

kchoudhu 10y ago

Incognito mode, and then google the article.

nickez 10y ago

Use a different browser worked for me.

maskedinvader 10y ago

using incognito mode on firefox seems to work for me. I got a 'youve hit your 10 article limit' msg otherwise

jasonkostempski 10y ago

I wish HN would shun pay wall sites, even if there's a workaround available. It's clear they don't want you reading their stuff unless you're a subscriber, respect their wishes.

jmts 10y ago
I've been pondering a self-imposed boycott of websites with paywalls, and ads that interrupt user experience. As time goes on I am valuing my time more and more, and that five second delay mid-read (that costs me another ten to find where I was up to) when I move my cursor off the current window and end up with a pop-up, or some ad mid-article that disappears half-way resulting in a quarter screen shift in content is becoming increasingly frustrating. Of course the flip-side is coming up with a better way. I haven't yet thought of anything glaringly obvious, but surely it involves making people happy, and not pestering them and treating them as just another set of eyes.
- jasonkostempski 10y ago
  "I've been pondering a self-imposed boycott of websites with paywalls, and ads that interrupt user experience." I made an FF add-on for myself for that exact purpose, here's a comment thread about it from the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13949693 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13949693

ddinh 10y ago

You can block all cookies on the website if you want a paywall bypass that works without needing incognito - an extension like uMatrix [1] does this persistently (click on the plugin icon when your browser is navigated to The Economist, then click on the bottom half of the "cookie" box in the "all" row. The column should turn red, indicating that cookies are blocked). [1] https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix