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Article is stuck behind paywall for me
by jonfw 7y ago
Article is stuck behind paywall for me
- jfk13 7y agoSo if you want to read it, perhaps it's time to consider paying? (Alternatively, private browsing mode might work.)
- Bud 7y agoMore to the point, it's better to post links that are viewable by the full audience, where possible.
- randallsquared 7y agoPaying providers directly either means micropayments or committing to reading enough of that specific news source to get a non-micropayment-sized amount of value from it. No one has really cracked micropayments in a way that has caught on, yet, and the model of depending on a single source for a majority of news has gone the way of print newspapers. Bloomberg, NYT, WashPo, the Economist, and other such places need to figure out how to provide value commensurate with the money they charge, or else figure out how to exist in a world where one of "their" readers still visits dozens or hundreds of other such outlets a month. > Try 3 months for -$105- $6. Cancel anytime. The 105 is just a joke, and even $2 a month is very high, considering there'd be similar payments to 20+ other such outlets.
- jonfw 7y agoexactly. The subscription model only makes sense for loyal readers- which I am not.
- toss1 7y agoI'd actually be happy to pay substantially for a sufficiently broad spectrum of news from multiple providers However, $100-$500 to each one that I want to read >5 articles per month is not sustainable. We need one of two models: Pay maybe $0.20/article, refundable if I don't finish, don't like it (obviously limiting the number of Refund hits/month to prevent abuse) Pay once for a selection of feeds, say $100/quarter, and pick your favorite 5 out of 50, get unlimited reads from that batch and 10/month from the rest. I'd happily sign up for either, but no one publication provides sufficient breadth to support at the demanded price level.
- mywittyname 7y agoIsn't this the Apple News model?
- toss1 7y agoSeems so, tho coverage wasn't great when I first looked - worth another look now, do they have Bloomberg, WaPo, FTimes, & other top tiers yet?
- cjg 7y agohttp://archive.is/tfWyx http://archive.is/tfWyx
- somurzakov 7y agojust ban bloomberg.com cookies in site settings
- toss1 7y agogood suggestion, but the result is that they just think it is 'Private Mode' and ban reading past top section on that basis
- dhosek 7y agoI've been able to read bloomberg articles in private mode windows in Safari.
- somurzakov 7y agonope, i've been reading bloomberg for years and never had a problem. just ban all *.bloomberg.com cookies, and not the other domains
- gao8a 7y agotry adding a period after the .com
- felipemnoa 7y agoThanks! Why does this work?
- gao8a 7y agoI believe this messes up the redirect to the paywall but is still a valid URL for the browser
- paulmd 7y agoWorks for me in Firefox reader mode. Always worth a shot, although some sites actually will go to the extent of not loading the full content past a leader paragraph unless you log in. Which I can at least respect, then I move on, but if you serve me the content then don't expect me to not read it even if it requires altering javascript or removing ads.