What is the cheapest way to get the AFR, especially to read on your mobile (so no chrome extensions unfortunately).
I know about the student offer, and I also know about googling the articles to bypass the paywall, but is there any other way to view it at a significantly reduced price?
Cheers!
I use FF BypassPaywalls.
Gives full access to the articles, just not in the paper print format registered users get..
Awesome, thanks for the extension. By any chance is there a way to make this work with mobile firefox?
Just tried it on mobile Firefox seems to be working for me on the Australian financial review website just browsed a few articles with no pay wall.
But then you are basically stealing….
I'm not sure that is the OzBargain philosophy. It is more about getting a cheap, legitimate deal.
If I go into Maccas or the library and read the communal newspaper am I stealing content? This is a hack to avoid paying to access the newspaper too.
You may argue that the newspaper has been paid for, but that is a single payment with no chance of making further revenue - bypassing a paywall still has a potential revenue arm through advertising.
I rest my case your honour.
Judge: "That is a perfectly reasoned argument. Everyone is now free to download all intellectual property for free. Spread the knowledge!"
Not a bad point as there are many news sites (eg Guardian) which don't have a physical copy nor paywall and just rely on advertising/donations.
Unfortunately that is not the business model of the AFR. Whether it is a digital subscriber, McDonalds or the library paying then the AFR is receiving money.
In your case, if everyone did what you did the AFR would not be sustainable and you wouldn't be able to enjoy the content that you are keen not to pay for.
@kiribatian: FWIW I don't read any newspapers as such, I use a news aggregator and don't pay a cent.
Work at my workplace. We get so many copies but very few people read it.
I don't know about the AFR but if you do want to pay for the Sydney Morning Herald (or The Age seeing you're a Melburnian), what you can do is sign up when it's half price, then threaten to cancel when it goes back to full price. They'll usually offer another so and so months at half price to keep you subscribed. I've been threatening to cancel for three years now. I suppose you could try the same tactic with AFR since it's the same publisher?
(Yes there's the paywall bypass and everything but I like reading the SMH on my iPad with their app and getting the weekend papers delivered. Just not that much to pay full price haha)
Try extension AFR Paywall Blocker on Chrome
Google the link and open it in cached mode
But you gotta do it per link you want to read, a bit troublesome
If you browse to an article and then select "reader mode" in your browser it removes the paywall for that article. Tested on my iphone and firefox, both work without any extension or hassle. I pay the student subscription, but it's actually easier sometimes to do this than login on my phone.
Does it allow browsing if you change your browser to Googlebot? (use an extension is easiest way to do this)