How to Get around of Newspaper Subscription Fee?

jowu15 on 11/06/2019 - 16:07

Hi more and more newspaper charger online subscription fee, I like to read The Age but I think its only give 10 free article a month now, which I finish in one day and its troublesome to delete cache every one or two days. I am thinking if I should just pay for the subscription and be done with it. Another reason I am thinking of paying the subscription fee is because I am worried the quality of the news.

I wonder how many OZBargainers pay for the subscription and how many news outlet you pay?

I mainly read The Age, and Financial Times, Australian Financial Review and WSJ only occasionally .

Poll Options

  • 12
    Yes I pay for more than one subscription fee
  • 19
    Yes I only pay for one subscription fee
  • 12
    No I do not pay for any subscription fee but i am considering if I should pay
  • 110
    No I do not and never will
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Comments

  • o53djz7qTPY4der on 11/06/2019 - 16:14
    +11

    Incognito

    • jowu15 on 11/06/2019 - 17:16

      Not sure how to do that, will google it. Thanks

    • mousie on 11/06/2019 - 17:18

      Epic Private Browser :)

    • Bargain80 on 12/06/2019 - 15:34

      I don't know about others but Chrome incognito doesn't work on Couriermail.
      It still asks for subscription.
      Or is there a trick to it?

  • eleon00 on 11/06/2019 - 16:25
    +3

    Outline.com

    • jowu15 on 11/06/2019 - 17:16

      Ok I’ll try it n see if I can work it out

    • nomoneynoproblems on 11/06/2019 - 18:04

      Yep this one. Incognito only works a few sites.

  • pistachio1 on 11/06/2019 - 16:34
    +1

    Bypass Paywalls and/or Anti Paywall Master.

    • jowu15 on 11/06/2019 - 17:15

      How to do that? Can you please give a more detailed steps. Thanks

  • EightImmortals on 11/06/2019 - 16:35
    +1

    I just have ccleaner set to clear that particular browser's cache and cookies whenever I close it. Still doesn't help when the most interesting articles are behind a paywall however. :(

    • jowu15 on 11/06/2019 - 17:20

      Yes I agree the most interesting articles are behind paywall. Still how do you just clean one particularly browser’s cache and cookies? I only know how to clean all the cache n cookies

      • EightImmortals on 11/06/2019 - 17:25

        Go to 'custom clean' in ccleaner then right-click on the browser to clean. Although after I close a browser I used to get a popup asking me if I wanted ccleaner to clean it automatically. You might have to play with the settings to find that option in ccleaner.

        • jowu15 on 11/06/2019 - 17:36

          Thanks I’ll try your suggestion

  • orangetrain on 11/06/2019 - 16:49

    ABC and Guardian are free. What news are you looking for?

    • jowu15 on 11/06/2019 - 17:26
      +2

      I tried Abc n Guardian but I still like The Age better, not only The Age has more detailed current affairs and news and analysis but also more localised.

      I am interested in general news, current affairs but particularly business news.

    • Seraphin7 on 11/06/2019 - 17:42
      -2

      Actual news … not the biased crap these outfits toss up.

      • orangetrain on 12/06/2019 - 07:41
        +3

        There's unbiased news? Like what? Wait do you pay for biased news? Lol

  • 87percent on 11/06/2019 - 16:51

    Do you know any teachers? They get a subscription pretty cheap

    • jowu15 on 11/06/2019 - 17:28

      No I don’t think so but interesting to know thanks

    • Daabido on 11/06/2019 - 18:14
      -1

      It used to be cheap for the News Corp papers, but not anymore.

  • Sergeant Salami on 11/06/2019 - 16:59
    +3

    If you're using Chrome to view the age,

    1. Click on the padlock (next to https://www.theage.com.au)
    2. Click on Cookies
    3. remove all the cookies
    4. Click Done
    5. Refresh the website and you're good to go. Repeat the process.

    Or you can use incognito mode to view it. The choice is yours.

    • jowu15 on 11/06/2019 - 17:31

      Thanks n yes I’m use Chrome to read news n I’ll try your suggestions, I have been deleting all cookies n cache so far.

    • Hedgehog on 12/06/2019 - 08:05
      +2

      You R a star, did not know this but I bet my son has told me a few times….

  • yippy on 11/06/2019 - 17:11
    +4

    With the SMH site I just block the cookies for the website and I've had no issues with viewing as many articles as I want for the past few years.

    • jowu15 on 11/06/2019 - 17:32

      Thanks I’ll try your suggestion.

  • John Kimble on 11/06/2019 - 17:17

    Block cookies from the get go for those websites

    • jowu15 on 11/06/2019 - 17:33

      Ok thanks n I’ll try it.

  • Alan Laz on 11/06/2019 - 18:06
    +2

    Duck Duck Go browser.

  • kerfuffle on 11/06/2019 - 18:37

    Probably the only Ozbargainer who pays for a subscription but I only subscribe when it's 50% off and threaten to cancel when it's almost full price in the hopes they'll offer more months at 50% off.

    Tip: If you subscribe to the Sydney Morning Herald, it'll give you access to The Age as well and vice versa

    • jowu15 on 12/06/2019 - 14:06

      Thanks for the tip. I subscribed to The Australian for a number of years, but I do not really use it much

  • kranix on 11/06/2019 - 19:26
    +2

    For many sites, add the article to Pocket and read from there.

    With The Economist, set your browser to block cookies.

    For (formerly known as) Fairfax, change the domain in the URL to smh, theage, watoday, brisbanetimes, canberratimes, etc.

  • netpenthe on 11/06/2019 - 22:27
    +2

    library often has access through their online portals (SA libraries can access News papers)

    • jowu15 on 12/06/2019 - 14:13

      Yes I have tried The Age on library access but its a bit hard to navigate it, hard to adjust size of etc

  • ShahAU786 on 12/06/2019 - 09:59

    I mostly read all the news on my phone. Easy way to get around for me is Google News and Apple News, brings paid articles for free :D hope this helps.

    • jowu15 on 12/06/2019 - 14:19

      In fact the trigger of my post was I was reading Google News and then clicked a link but I could not open the link because the article is from Financial Times. How do you handle the instance of click on an article but been blocked?

      • ShahAU786 on 13/06/2019 - 09:50

        @jowu15 hmm interesting. For some reason, I haven't faced this issue, yet. May be try Apple News if you use iPhone, this works for me and buy passes everything automatically. I have tested this by sharing a link with someone and they required the payment to read the news. Hope this helps.

        • jowu15 on 13/06/2019 - 10:39

          Thats very interesting. I have encountered articles been blocked a number of times so I do not use Google News much, but I will take your advice and try Apple News. Thanks for sharing.

    • jowu15 on 12/06/2019 - 14:14

      Thanks and will do

  • TransportPosters on 12/06/2019 - 10:56
    +1

    Getting real sick of news.com.au with all the huge ads and forced auto-playing videos. It causes jerkiness on my phone all the time and even crashes my friend's phone browser (the only website which does it!).

    I just use it to quickly scan headlines, and head over to ABC (which we all pay for already!) for more in-depth reading.

  • AncientWisdom on 12/06/2019 - 13:09

    Yes, I think the future will be in micro payments where you can pay per article, hopefully after reading it if you find it worthwhile.

  • spersephone on 12/06/2019 - 13:26

    I pay for one with The Age, but it's a rip-off. I have a student subscription that is much cheaper. When that runs out, I will probably cancel.

    • jowu15 on 12/06/2019 - 14:25

      I think quality of articles in The Age, any newspaper in general, are not what they were, but we can not blame on others when most of us do not want to pay for it. I wonder what is the percentage of people in general public is paying for subscription.

  • Riversdale28 on 12/06/2019 - 15:27

    FYI: Join the State Library in your own state (e.g. State Library of Victoria), and they will not only provide The Age every day but have a back catalogue going back years. Joining is free…

    • jowu15 on 13/06/2019 - 10:40

      Ok thats easy I live 7 mins walk to State Library of Victoria, will try it out, thanks

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