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Good idea, but does not work with Financial Times.
by udev 11y ago
Good idea, but does not work with Financial Times.
- PhantomGremlin 11y agoFT has (as far as I've been able to determine) a hard paywall. But they do give you a certain number of free articles per month (8 IIRC?) if you create an account. Also everything at FT Alphaville is free with an account. Good enough for me!
- pornel 11y agoHi! I work for Financial Times. We've started experimenting with First Click Free — soon you'll get one article a day for free if you come from Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn or Reddit. We'd like to let Google index more of our content (which will require allowing First Click Free from Google as well), but that depends on our other efforts, such as launch of a redesigned desktop site (you should try the beta, it's pretty cool) and technology changes behind mobile sites. Of course we'll keep First Click Free if it leads to more readers subscribing rather than just faking referrers.
- asquabventured 11y agoCan you add Drudgereport to that list? I follow a lot of links from drudge and when he links to a FT article and I click without realizing I end up at the paywall splash screen and just immediately close the tab.