Jeeze, I am so sick of being interested in an article and getting denied as I don't want to pay $4/mo or $40 per year. Popular Mechanics sends emails, I want to see an article, cant.

WSJ, the local bird cage fish wrapper, it goes on and on.

Sorry, I think this will end up badly for everyone involved. Throw some ads up that I will ignore, get 1/10,000 of a cent per ad. Will be more profitable than me saying F Off

A lot of times, if you copy/paste the first sentence of the teaser paragraph into google, somebody has posted it somewhere without a paywall and you can read it there.

Sometimes, though not always you can open the article in the incognito window in Chrome.

Reader view works for me most of the time. When it does work, I never see any ads.

Paywall?

Exit.

Let them die behind it.

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Originally posted by V-Tail:
Reader view works for me most of the time. When it does work, I never see any ads.

Can you explain this? Thank you

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Originally posted by OKCGene:

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Originally posted by V-Tail:
Reader view works for me most of the time. When it does work, I never see any ads.

Can you explain this? Thank you

How to use reader view in your Browser

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Originally posted by OKCGene:

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Originally posted by V-Tail:
Reader view works for me most of the time. When it does work, I never see any ads.

Can you explain this? Thank you

I use the Safari browser, on Mac. I am not sure whether this feature is supported on other browsers, but the way it works on Mac -- if the website that I am looking at supports Reader View (most of the news sites do), I see three horizontal bars on the left side of the web page URL in the address window. Clicking on that changes to Reader View, which then displays the news article with no ads, and most of the time (not always) gets past the paywall.

I can also enter this mode by using the dropdown menu from "View" and selecting "Show Reader View," or I can use the shortcut key combination, shift-command-R

I had assumed that other browsers support Reader View when the website has it enabled, but maybe not, I have not checked this in browsers other than Safari.

Sometimes Inprivate browsing bypasses the paywall.

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Originally posted by kz1000:

Sometimes Inprivate browsing bypasses the paywall.

I don't know, but I am guessing the this might be a cookie thing. Some paywall sites will allow a limited number of views before blocking for non-payers. This would be tracked by cookies, and private browsing (you know, like a person would use for porn sites ) do not retain cookies.

You can achieve the same results on these sites in an ordinary (non-private) browser by clearing cookies for that site. I have done this with some paywall sites. A bit of a pain in the tuchas, but it works.

your local library might have an account for you to read this stuff. My library does, but not used it in a while.

Paywalls and content blocking unless you turn off your ad blocker simply result in my going elsewhere.

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Originally posted by radioman:

your local library might have an account for you to read this stuff. My library does, but not used it in a while.

Are we still discussing porn sites?

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Originally posted by bald1:
Paywalls and content blocking unless you turn off your ad blocker simply result in my going elsewhere.

Yep, and more and more sites trying to force you to turn off your ad blocker these days. Honestly I wouldn't mind scrolling past the ads if it wasn't for the fact that pages are so overrun with them that they take forever to load and then don't display properly. Marketers have all but destroyed the internet...it's barely usable now.

Just one more reason that Sigforum is one of the few sites that I spend any time on anymore.

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Originally posted by dlc444:
Popular Mechanics sends emails, I want to see an article, cant.

This one irks the crap out of me. I have a subscription to the magazine, but can't read the online articles. Oh, I'm sure they'll let me, if I'll start an account or some crap... "ain't nobody got time fo' dat!" If you're going to publish the article on the web, make it public!

Yeah, yeah, I know everybody's got bills to pay... blah, blah, blah. But in this example, especially, it really peeves me. How in the world does it make sense to make things difficult/complex for your loyal readers?

Log in to read the article? Nah, thanks. I'll go bathe the cat or wash the dishes or something.

That is really stupid on their part. My father was a mechanical engineer and had every copy going back years. I could not understand the fascination since I am a liberal arts guy who works in healthcare. That is the sort of thing that would enrage him.