Paywalls

[robemcdonald]

A purely academic question but a friend asked about an online article they wanted to read without subscribing to a newspaper.
If someone wanted to do such a thing how would they go about it? just a matter of interest.
The article is here
www.thetimes.com/money/pensions/article/mortgage-r...

Thanks in advance

[SteBrown91]

put the article URL into archive.ph

[robemcdonald]

SteBrown91 said:

put the article URL into archive.ph

I believe they may have already tried that and also putting a browser in reader mode..

[SteBrown91]

Ah, Times must be more clever. Works fine for anything on the Daily Fail

[RizzoTheRat]

Interesting, that's first time I've seen a site that's been archived with the paywall notification.

[slievenashaska]

The Times hardened their paywall a month or so ago and the bypasses no longer work.

If the particular article has been posted to their X feed or Facebook page to promote it, then you can read it by going through that route.

[Colonel Cupcake]

That article opens in byebyepaywall.com for me.

[robemcdonald]

Thanks for the assist.

[DoctorX]

slievenashaska said:

The Times hardened their paywall a month or so ago and the bypasses no longer work.

If the particular article has been posted to their X feed or Facebook page to promote it, then you can read it by going through that route.

I did wonder if that was the case. I'm still having some success with the Brave browser and Archive.ph but it's not as good as it was.

[driver67]

www.removepaywall.com still works with most sites including the above with one of the four options.

[nvubu]

archive.ph worked for me - no paywall showing

https://archive.ph/GwUbk