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Some ~large~ sites are still quite far behind tech wise in stopping free reading. What do these bigger papers use? My national site just had a `class="premiu
by scanny 7y ago
Some ~large~ sites are still quite far behind tech wise in stopping free reading.
What do these bigger papers use?
My national site just had a
`class="premium-content"`
that you needed to delete to bypass it.
They upgraded, and now all you have to do is take the
`class="QUnWjUZnTonf"`
for each paragraph, and remove it.
(e.g. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12231625 https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&object... )
I wonder who is in charge of these sorts of things, you would think that if you are going to block people off you would put more effort into things.
- 0xADEADBEE 7y agoI've worked in a few NZ dev shops and rigor isn't in my experience, high on the agenda! I also had no idea NZ Herald even had a subscription model, so thank you.
- winningcontinue 7y agoIt's good enough that for the average consumer, they'd never decide to look in to the source code, edit it and then reload the page with the changes. However this type of stuff just allows someone to easily come along with a counterforce app and scale the paywall.