Reading without Subscribing (Convenient Freeper Tip)

[Eagle9]

Thanks ! Here's a NYT article linked through Google.

Many Tools of Big Brother Are Up And Running -- New York Times Dec. 23, 2002

[SAMWolf]

Thanks Saber. Hopefully they won't close this loopehole in the near future.

[MeekOneGOP]

Thanks and Merry Christmas !

[snopercod]

Cool. Thanks.

[PeaceBeWithYou]

The link is good for a few days, once Google delinks it, or the "rag" the article is in moves it, it takes you to the registration page.(This happens with the excerpted-full article links too after a few days.)

It's still a neat backdoor via Google, and given the life span of of postings on FR, it usually outlast the discussion period.

No doubt, they will close the loophole sooner or later.

[CheneyChick]

Brilliant! Thank you, SaberKitty! Merry Christmas!

Cheers, CC :)

[gitmo]

I knew a couple of guys who had a run-in with their high-school teacher. They spent every study-hall hour subscribing to magazines, and ordering anything and everything in the teachers name. They guessed they had subscribed him to about five to ten thousand magazines by the end of the school year.

[gitmo]

Good work, Sabertooth!

[Timesink]

Thanks ! Here's a NYT article linked through Google.

I notice the end of that URL reads "partner=GOOGLE". I bet if you took that off, it wouldn't work. (I can't try it myself since I am registered with the Times (hey, it's for the crosswords, leave me alone), so any time I access one of their pages it shows up with my username on it.)

A sidenote on the use of "cypherpunks/cypherpunks": If the site you're using won't let you use the same word as both your password and username, then the username is "cypherpunks" and the pass just "cypherpunk". Also, if the username and password have to be less than 8 characters, you just enter as many as you can: "cypherp"/"cypherp" for example.

[Brad’s Gramma]

THANKS Saber!!!! Bumping to save this. Merry Christmas, my friend.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Just had the same problem!

[Fred Mertz]

Thanks for the work-around tip. Merry Christmas!

[Spunky]

More and more websites now require subscriptions and passwords before viewing their material.................

Let's start with the problem. Take this excerpted thread on Free Republic as an example:

Sabertooth, I had no problem reading the full article when I clicked on your link or any of the other links.

No subscription or password needed came up for me.

I know there are some sites but I don't think the Washington Post is one of them.

I think a few times I have tried to view the New York Post and it said I needed to subscribe.

[JohnHuang2]

More than welcome, friend, and Merry Christmas to you and yours!

[Seeking the truth]

Excellent tip and allow me to pass on this one.

If anyone wants to access the Premium section of the New York Times, they can use this username to get in - bbirules.

Someone from a NY Giants football BB set this up in order that Giant fans like myself can read the sports pages!