The Times paywalls go up...

[George111]

BlackLabel said:

hornetrider said:

Strange. This is with chrome and abp. Cookies cleared.

I sometimes get that whilst browsing the Telegraph too - on firefox, with ad blocker and I'm blocking cookies from the Telegraph. A quick refresh and then re-clicking on the article link seems to sort it out.

I got it with AdBlock Plus but not with uBlock Origin - perhaps they use different methods to fool the serving site into believing you are receiving the full page.

[BlackLabel]

If anyone's interested the Times website is paywall free for 24 hours starting midnight tonight.

twitter said:

Katherine O'Donnell
53m
Katherine O'Donnell‏ @kathy__odonnell
For 24 hours from midnight The Times paywall will be lifted. Come in and share our journalism at this historic moment.

[AmitG]

BlackLabel said:

If anyone's interested the Times website is paywall free for 24 hours starting midnight tonight.

twitter said:

Katherine O'Donnell
53m
Katherine O'Donnell? @kathy__odonnell
For 24 hours from midnight The Times paywall will be lifted. Come in and share our journalism at this historic moment.

Thanks for the heads up

[hornetrider]

So the Guardian have for some time been running a footer begging for subscription handouts to fund their 'excellent journalism' - ahem.

Today they've upped the ante a bit by running a blanking page when accessing the site asking for adblockers to be turned off. You can kill this page and continue browsing, however I wonder how long it will be before you can only access the site without a blocker.

[eldar]

hornetrider said:

So the Guardian have for some time been running a footer begging for subscription handouts to fund their 'excellent journalism' - ahem.

Today they've upped the ante a bit by running a blanking page when accessing the site asking for adblockers to be turned off. You can kill this page and continue browsing, however I wonder how long it will be before you can only access the site without a blocker.

A smarter ad blocker will appear...

[urquattroGus]

Does anyone here subscribe?

£26 a month after the introductory offer....

Seems a bit hard to justify?

[Funk]

urquattroGus said:

Does anyone here subscribe?

£26 a month after the introductory offer....

Seems a bit hard to justify?

Jesus... Definitely wouldn't at that money!

I'd actually forgotten it even existed...

[eldar]

Funk said:

Jesus... Definitely wouldn't at that money!

I'd actually forgotten it even existed...

Seems you are not alone, The Times is doing quite well in print, and badly online.

The London Evening Standard has twice as many readers in total.

http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/nrs-national-press-r...

[Yipper]

eldar said:

Funk said:

Jesus... Definitely wouldn't at that money!

I'd actually forgotten it even existed...

Seems you are not alone, The Times is doing quite well in print, and badly online.

The London Evening Standard has twice as many readers in total.

http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/nrs-national-press-r...

The Times / Sunday Times have got 100-200k readers online subscribing at £1-30 a month, so they're taking several million Pounds a year in subscription fees. For a paywall site, they're doing okay (but not great).

[Derek Smith]

Yipper said:

The Times / Sunday Times have got 100-200k readers online subscribing at £1-30 a month, so they're taking several million Pounds a year in subscription fees. For a paywall site, they're doing okay (but not great).

Is that readers or subscribers?

I get it free from a supermarket.

[Funk]

Derek Smith said:

Yipper said:

The Times / Sunday Times have got 100-200k readers online subscribing at £1-30 a month, so they're taking several million Pounds a year in subscription fees. For a paywall site, they're doing okay (but not great).

Is that readers or subscribers?

I get it free from a supermarket.

It's a Yipper post so most likely inaccurate.

[Scobblelotcher]

eldar said:

hornetrider said:

So the Guardian have for some time been running a footer begging for subscription handouts to fund their 'excellent journalism' - ahem.

Today they've upped the ante a bit by running a blanking page when accessing the site asking for adblockers to be turned off. You can kill this page and continue browsing, however I wonder how long it will be before you can only access the site without a blocker.

A smarter ad blocker will appear...

You called? https://pi-hole.net/

[Gloria Slap]

Derek Smith said:

Is that readers or subscribers?

I get it free from a supermarket.

How do you do that Derek, which one?

[Jockman]

Times online costs me £5 per month.

IIRC 4 devices allowed so my ipad, wife's ipad, my pc and a friend's pc.

[AstonZagato]

I read it every day on the train on the way into work. So I get the coupons for the paper edition, which gives me internet access and iPad download.

[urquattroGus]

Jockman said:

Times online costs me £5 per month.

IIRC 4 devices allowed so my ipad, wife's ipad, my pc and a friend's pc.

For that I’d do it, but it seems that only for the introductory period?

£26 a month is the cheapest one bar student... at the moment anyway, unless there is another way??

[Jockman]

urquattroGus said:

Jockman said:

Times online costs me £5 per month.

IIRC 4 devices allowed so my ipad, wife's ipad, my pc and a friend's pc.

For that I’d do it, but it seems that only for the introductory period?

£26 a month is the cheapest one bar student... at the moment anyway, unless there is another way??

I signed up last June so maybe they were doing an offer??

Just to add, like Astonzagato I have a coupon subscription paid for by work on a pack called The International Pack which I can’t see on their website any more.

[Funk]

Does it offer anything that can't be read elsewhere?

[Jockman]

Not as far as I can tell, though I noticed Times + whatever that is.

[hyphen]

Funk said:

Does it offer anything that can't be read elsewhere?

Or that you can't do without.

Don't read the Times, but still browse Telegraph after Premium came in, any article that is restricted is ignored/read elsewhere. Not bothered to sign-up for the free allowance of 1 per day or whatever it is neither.