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economist.com brilliantly bans you from accessing their site after you've clicked a few of their links. The text vanishes because they've sloppily hacked this l
by stevenh 9y ago
economist.com brilliantly bans you from accessing their site after you've clicked a few of their links. The text vanishes because they've sloppily hacked this limitation in client-side by checking a cookie after the page finishes loading. This leaves 99% of visitors thinking that the site is broken, so they leave without ever noticing the message about how they need to pay a ransom to unban themselves.
For sites like this, you can sometimes archive the URL to evade the ban.
http://archive.is/Ni7Lo http://archive.is/Ni7Lo
- wj 9y agoOT: I think it is a bit of a jump to equate subscribing to paying a ransom.
- 2OEH8eoCRo 9y agoI hate how supermarkets hold food ransom. Greedy
- laser 9y agoIt's a bit like a ransom when they load the article at first, you start reading, and then the text disappears asking for payment. Fortunately, The Economist seems to just use cookies so you can still view the articles incognito.