Comments on: Paywalls: the tricky trouble with the internets

By: Joal

Joal — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:00:03 +0000

For anyone still reading this, I thought I’d update…

I tried it at home, and it worked as promised quite straightforwardly.

Having tried it from work multiple times without success… well, that’s a bit confusing. But there it is.

I have a theory which I may try out tomorrow.

By: Arethusa

Arethusa — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:28:21 +0000

Heh, I misread the instructions and pasted the url of the truncated article into Google, but it still worked . I might have lost my WSJ virginity doing that, but I swear I didn’t see anything worth reading, so I think its’s safe.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:20:18 +0000

This is cool and all but why would you want to read the WSJ.

By: Joal

Joal — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:49:54 +0000

“Follow the instructions above exactly, you can’t go wrong.”

I did. :p

By: John Inglis

John Inglis — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:22:41 +0000

Damn, it doesn’t work with Crikey.
Looks like I’ll have to keep paying the mongrels (and FDOTM)

By: Mark Presland

Mark Presland — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:56:55 +0000

@ joal

Follow the instructions above exactly, you can’t go wrong.

By: Mark Presland

Mark Presland — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:55:50 +0000

That is brilliant. It worked for me.

By: Joal

Joal — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:33:17 +0000

OK, what are you people doing that I’m missing?

By: Neil Walker

Neil Walker — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:25:10 +0000

It’s working! It’s working! (for me anyway).

Poor Rupert. News Corp isn’t very good at the internet thing. Someone who’s responsible for locking the Wall Street Journal content to non-subscribers is about to have a very bad day.

By: Joal

Joal — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:44:03 +0000

Too tricky for me obviously, cause I tried it and it achieved precisely nothing.