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on Sunday May 21 2017, @07:21AM
from the trying-to-get-paid-for-what-they-do dept.
from the trying-to-get-paid-for-what-they-do dept.
The Boston Globe website is closing off a hole in its paywall by preventing visitors who aren't logged in from reading articles in a browser's private mode.
"You're using a browser set to private or incognito mode" is the message given to BostonGlobe.com visitors who click on articles in private mode. "To continue reading articles in this mode, please log in to your Globe account." People who aren't already Globe subscribers are urged to subscribe.
Like other news sites, the Globe limits the number of articles people can read without a subscription. Until the recent change, Globe website visitors could read more articles for free by switching to private or incognito mode.
Source: ArsTechnica
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 21 2017, @01:16PM (2 children)
I used to do this with seattletimes.com, until they adjusted their website such that viewing content required javascript. Without it, you see no articles, headlines, images, etc.
I assume they want javascript enabled so that they can absorb income from advertising and marketing. I disable javascript for privacy. Since they clearly don't want people like me viewing their website's content, I decided to remove any temptation by adding seattletimes.com 127.0.0.1 in my hosts file. Now, when friends/family send me links to seattletimes.com, I can't waste that corporation's limited electrical resources by leeching from their website for free and perhaps seeing even static image ads. No sir...a leech like me doesn't deserve the honor of seeing their paid advertisements and generating income for them, and they should be happy I'm no longer doing so! Am I a good citizen, or what?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 21 2017, @03:08PM
I quit reading seattletimes.com when I found out I was a person of interest to the FBI.
(Score: 2) by nethead on Sunday May 21 2017, @06:46PM
I just pay $5/month to The Seattle Times and use an ad blocker. Works great for me and I get to support local news reporting. I do the same for my more local paper in Everett.
How did my SN UID end up over 3 times my /. UID?