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Can't use frames. They complain that's a copyright violation. We can open the news source in a new window though.

This sounds like a winnable court case but who's got the money to fight them ?

How about a smaller child window without any of the navigational toolbars? That wouldn't be so bad.

Can't use frames. They complain that's a copyright violation.

Nonsense!

We can open the news source in a new window though.

Could you automate the login process - say we could keep our login name and password (or age, gender and zip code, whatever the news source needs) on file with FR - for each freeper, for each supported news source? Then we could 'one-click' through to the original article (oops - better make that two clicks - wouldn't want to give the Amazon lawyers any billable hours ;).

When I clicked on the link to some known news source for which I didn't have on FR file the needed login info, I'd get a screen (that you guys wrote) that asked me to either provide one-time the needed login info, or select the option to "Don't ask me again on this site, as I can handle my own login, thank-you kindly".

On on another My Account page I could list, update, delete my login info for each supported news web site.

I suspect that what I'm suggesting here is too difficult, because it seems to involve automating responses to ever changing login screens of dozens of news web sites. Life is too short for that crap. But I'm no web meister, so perhaps that part isn't such a pain.

And the other gotcha that comes to mind -- if some computer in sunny Freeper California (or wherever your FR server is) logs in for me, how to we transfer that login info to my nice little PC? Having a javascript do the login for me right off my PC seems to be pushing javascript further than even the Sun marketing rep would consider practical. Can a javascript transfer the cookie?