Are you paying WSJ to read that story?
Don Day March 21st, 2008
While the Wall Street Journal charges for access to much of its content - it is pretty easy to get around the pay wall to read your story of choice. Salon outlines how simple it is to get to the WSJ’s content - including a simple Google News search, to a Firefox add-on that helps you exploit the paper’s relationship with Digg. Salon: “The Journal no longer really has a pay wall. It’s a pay curtain, useless and flimsy, and you’re committing no transgression in dancing around it.”
Update: Salon — not Slate
5 Comments Add your own
1. Chris | March 21st, 2008 at 3:41 pm
It’s Salon, not Slate! (I always get them confused too…)
2. Bunk | March 21st, 2008 at 5:47 pm
The Spokane Spokesman Review newspaper has the same situation with Google. If you go to their website and try to click on a story, it will tell you to subscribe to read. But if you do a Google search for the same headline, the first link will be the story you wanted to read in all its complete glory. Seems kinda dumb to keep charging people for something you can get free easily.
3. Amanda E. | March 21st, 2008 at 9:03 pm
Bunk, that goes for most newspapers, not just the Cowles’ family paper.
If they are AP members, more often than not, I can find the stories that are firewalled on another AP member’s site for free via a Google search.
4. oakling | March 24th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
That is so true. I’ve been using the google cache to read things, or in a pinch Google to search for a copy of the story, for years!
5. Dan | March 24th, 2008 at 9:36 pm
Doesn’t always work. I set it up on a Mac Firefox
and it kinda works but not for columnists and
other areas. Plus you gotta reset the static referer
constantly plus enter digg.com everytime you
open Firefox. It’s not like paying for it…. at all.
But for a few articles here and there, it’s ok.
Dan
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