[Hack] Free Online Access to The Age/SMH

weberkshire on 19/12/2013 - 02:57

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Not sure if this is a deal per se but it's very handy!

Simply install the SMH or The Age Paywall blocker into Chrome and hey presto, no more stupid popup telling you you've read 10 out of 10 free articles for the month!

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Comments

  • SpaceNinja on 19/12/2013 - 03:03

    hack, besides dev himself says doesn't work anymore.

    • weberkshire on 19/12/2013 - 03:08

      The Age definitely works

    • SteveBuscemi on 19/12/2013 - 09:59
      +2

      SMH one works too. But it's easier to just use Incognito/Private Browsing/Porn Mode.

  • Bargain4U on 19/12/2013 - 03:04
    +3

    I know this is Ozbargain and all but, quality journalism isn't free. If you're thinking advertising makes it up, probably not as they reported a net loss after tax of $16.4 million last FY.

    • weberkshire on 19/12/2013 - 03:08
      +3

      HuffPo seems to do alright for a free service! Not our fault Fairfax is a poorly run organisation.

      • weberkshire on 19/12/2013 - 03:13

        I stand corrected, it seems HuffPo hasn't turned a profit in 3 years.

        Perhaps The Guardian is a better example.

        • Bargain4U on 19/12/2013 - 03:14

          Guardian Media Group exists to support the core purpose of its owner, Scott Trust Limited: to secure the financial and editorial independence of The Guardian in perpetuity, but in the 2011/12 year the group lost £75.6 million, and for the three years up to June 2012, the paper itself lost £100,000 a day - leading Intelligent Life magazine to question whether The Guardian can survive. Source

        • [Deactivated] on 19/12/2013 - 03:18
          +1

          @Bargain4U The Guardian actually made a tidy (£22.7 million) profit last financial year, but that's coming off a string of losses as your quote mentions: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-07-16/guardian-media-retu…

          It remains to be seen if their business model is viable, but the signs are promising. :)

        • Jabba the Hutt on 19/12/2013 - 03:53

          Profitable or not, the HuffPo model is pump out a flood of SEO'ed clickbait, unpaid contributions and quackery with the occasional piece of quality journalism. If Fairfax would have to go further down that route to remain "free", then I hope to hell the paywall model is a success.

    • _Bruce_ on 19/12/2013 - 06:30
      +2

      quality journalism isn't free

      Neither is this rubbish.

  • [Deactivated] on 19/12/2013 - 03:08
    +2

    Not sure if this is a deal per se

    Probably belongs in the forums, if it belongs on OzBargain at all.

  • WaffleCrusader on 19/12/2013 - 03:34
    +5

    Alternatively, since you're linking to a chrome extension anyway, you could just open up a new 'private' (incognito) window.

    • JeffT90 on 19/12/2013 - 06:05

      pretty much - this has been around since day 1

  • His_Holiness on 19/12/2013 - 03:36

    If you delete the cookies for theage and smh when you get a warning message, hey presto they disappear as they use cookies to monitor how many articles you read. Plus other smaller fairfax sites like WAtoday and BrisbaneTimes arent paywalled but still get all the articles that the other two get.

  • random101 on 19/12/2013 - 03:37
    +2

    Ctl + Shift + Porn works fine on Firefox :)

  • _Bruce_ on 19/12/2013 - 06:32
    -1

    The Age website is just so terrible I figure they never want me to read it anyway.

  • hctan on 19/12/2013 - 09:35

    What about the mobile site??

  • sonder on 19/12/2013 - 11:31
    +1

    For Firefox/Chrome, you can make a small change, set and forget, no addons etc required.

    Firefox:
    - Right click on page -> View Page Info -> Permissions -> Under 'Set Cookies', untick 'Use Default' then set it to block.

    Chrome:
    - Right click on page -> View Page Info -> "Show cookies and site data" -> Find the domain name(s) of the site you're on and click block.

    • cst on 19/12/2013 - 12:44

      Brilliant, thanks!

  • 1bug on 21/12/2013 - 23:30

    Refer also to the following…

    [HACK] How to Access SMH for Free on iPad / iPhone
    https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/115080

  • mafmouf on 25/06/2014 - 15:42

    Um, just something easier I found for SMH. No settings to be changed: when you click the link, just quickly press 'stop' before the pop up says you can't view any more articles for the month without subscription.

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