corbe wrote:
"Entire Article here (WaPo) has a paywall"
That's funny, I went to the WaPo site just to check, and no paywall for me.
I'm going to -guess- that their site is set up this way:
1. You visit the site for the first time -- no paywall
2. BUT... the WaPo website "puts a cookie" in your browser with "a timer" on it
3. You visit their site a few more times, still no paywall, BUT...
4. ...after a certain number of visits, the timer built into the cookie is reached.
5. From this point on, you aren't permitted to see any more articles (or perhaps just certain articles) unless you pay.
How to get around this?
(following method works for other sites as well)
Do this:
Install a "cookie manager" for your browser that deletes unwanted cookies at periodic intervals (such as when you quit your browser).
On the Mac I use either "Safari Cookies" or "Cookie" (depending on the OS version installed).
With either of these, I can "whitelist" cookies that I want to be kept -- and all others will be deleted.
Set up this way, news web sites will ALWAYS "see you" as visiting for the very first time, and will let you read articles without paying or subscribing.