Herald/Sun - Newspapers charging for online content

[Tigers of Old]

Same goes for The Australian and the Financial review.

The Hun lost my $$ the day they brought in this pay to view deal.

There wont be any printed papers one day in the future it will all be internet i reckon.

Sooner than you think Craigo.

 

[Streak]

Would be interesting to know how many people are still using their website.

I used to be a daily viewer, but haven't been for at least a week.

 

[Tigers of Old]

Would be interesting to know how many people are still using their website.

I used to be a daily viewer, but haven't been for at least a week.

I would imagine their numbers would be dropping off at an alarming rate.

 

[Jason King]

Bugger, I came here hoping someone had worked out an easy way around the upgraded paywall. Oh well, to The Age it is, although they keep telling me to read something that I think says you'll pay soon too.

Anyone tried just deleting cookies from internet explorer (or whatever browser you use)?

 

[Rosy]

Would be interesting to know how many people are still using their website.

I used to be a daily viewer, but haven't been for at least a week.

I can still read/find most of the content and I haven't paid.

 

[Total Tiger]

The Age are telling me I can only read 20 articles a month now. Grrrrrrrr.

 

[Baloo]

Yep, like the HS they've gone Freemium.

 

[LeeToRainesToRoach]

As posted by Tiger Pops, replace "heraldsun" in the URL with "news" and voila!

 

[kitrino_tj]

Junk news junk papers filthy opinions

 

[Rosy]

I wonder if the H/S have changed their policy. I'm finding most articles open fully straight away now. Also I got the message about limited articles from The Age. I can still read the site without any limitations though.

 

[Total Tiger]

I wonder if the H/S have changed their policy. I'm finding most articles open fully straight away now. Also I got the message about limited articles from The Age. I can still read the site without any limitations though.

How often are you clicking on to a story? I'm not sure what the Herald Sun free allowance is before they cut you off as I'm not going there much anymore but I haven't hit the 20 yet for The Age

 

[Tigers of Old]

HUN have no doubt just opened it up for a week or so just to try and woo a few jilted Age readers over. I fully expect their pay wall to be up again shortly.

 

[LeeToRainesToRoach]

Does anyone know what the uptake has been since the paywall went up?

 

[Total Tiger]

As posted by Tiger Pops, replace "heraldsun" in the URL with "news" and voila!

That seriously works. A bit fiddly but you get to read what you want

 

[Tigers of Old]

As posted by Tiger Pops, replace "heraldsun" in the URL with "news" and voila!

:thumbsup

 

[rokin.tiger]

I used to be a daily HS visitor now news.com.au visitor. Almost the same content, just head to Sport/AFL and most of the locked HS articles should be fine to read on there...

 

[LeeToRainesToRoach]

Judging by the new multi-font, faux magazine style layout, they're trying to kill off the HS newspaper. It's practically indistinguishable from that free thing they hand out in the afternoons. Do they assume their readers have short attention spans, or are they attempting to distract from the quality of the content? Will pay the extra and put up with The Age's leftist leanings before purchasing this classless shitrag again.

 

[Tigers of Old]

Don't miss it one bit.
More than enough free outlets regurgitating the same *smile*.
Why pay for it?

 

[Streak]

Don't miss it one bit.
More than enough free outlets regurgitating the same sh!t.
Why pay for it?

X2

 

[Rantnrave]

Utter Rupert Murdoch propanda machine .. A disgrace .. I wouldn't. Give that garbage a cent of my money
Or a minute of my time .. It's now irrelevant as you can get better , politically unbiased , news for free anyway