Why the Guardian is going down the pan!

[Ming]

There’s no pay wall

Well I currently can’t read anymore articles for 15 days unless i pay.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Does anyone know how to get past the paywall they’ve recently put up (you get a monthly allowance of free articles then you have to pay)?

when you get the thing that looks like a paywall, there's an 'i'll do it later' option, if you click on that, you get to the article

unless you've read a heck of a lot more articles than i have, and you've found something i've not triggered that is

i also have my browser set to clear cache each time i turn off which may help

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Well I currently can’t read anymore articles for 15 days unless i pay.

can you post a screen shot of what you're getting?

 

[Orang Utan]

Well I currently can’t read anymore articles for 15 days unless i pay.

Are you outside the UK? All free here.
You can read unpaywalled archived newspaper articles here:

Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Books, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

archive.org

Just c and p the url of whatever article you want to read in the search function and bob’s your uncle

 

[8ball]

Well I currently can’t read anymore articles for 15 days unless i pay.

There is no paywall that we can’t crack.
Tech ninjas have been dispatched.

 

[Ming]

can you post a screen shot of what you're getting?

How do you do that on an iPad?

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Tech ninjas have been dispatched.

 

[Ming]

Are you outside the UK? All free here.
You can read unpaywalled archived newspaper articles here:

Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Books, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

archive.org

Just c and p the url of whatever article you want to read in the search function and bob’s your uncle

Canada. That may be the problem.

 

[8ball]

How do you do that on an iPad?

Power button and the “button” button (or equivalent if a later version).

 

[Puddy_Tat]

How do you do that on an iPad?

oh bugger

dunno.

also don't know how you clear cache (or whatever the equivalent is) on an i-pad.

i'm trying to trigger the nag screen that i often get, and i'm not getting it no matter how many articles i go to.

 

[Ming]

 

[Puddy_Tat]

ah

you have it as an app, rather than just reading it as a website via a browser?

that might be different.

as a website, you occasionally get this nag screen -




but if you just click on 'I'll do it later' you get to the article.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

on my mobile phone, where i look at it via the android version of firefox, it says i've read 336 articles in the last year but i can just close that nag screen

it's probably time i cleared the cache on that as well

 

[Ming]

ah

you have it as an app, rather than just reading it as a website via a browser?

that might be different.

as a website, you occasionally get this nag screen -


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but if you just click on 'I'll do it later' you get to the article.

It works!! Thank you very much. I need to get my Monboit fix.

 

[8ball]

It works!! Thank you very much. I need to get my Monboit fix.

Go team!

 

[brogdale]

What a dumb-fuck headline.

 

[danny la rouge]

What a dumb-fuck headline.

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[two sheds]

What a dumb-fuck headline.

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I see your headline and raise you this

Are women getting angrier?

An annual poll suggests that women, on average worldwide, are getting angrier. Why might this be?

www.bbc.co.uk

with photo that proves it

mind you sacred rage healing sounds a goer.

 

[8ball]

mind you sacred rage healing sounds a goer.

Isn’t that basically the same as “Primal Scream therapy” that was popular in the late 70s or thereabouts?

 

[Larry O'Hara]

It works!! Thank you very much. I need to get my Monboit fix.

I could ask why (see my post about him on previous page) but then I notice you can’t spell the idiot’s name. So guess that puts you in his target audience: therefore go right ahead….

 

[Ming]

I could ask why (see my post about him on previous page) but then I notice you can’t spell the idiot’s name. So guess that puts you in his target audience: therefore go right ahead….

100%

 

[dessiato]

Yesterday I bought a physical copy of the Guardian, the first time in years. £3,50 for something with very little of interest in it. I'll not bother again.

 

[equationgirl]

Yesterday I bought a physical copy of the Guardian, the first time in years. £3,50 for something with very little of interest in it. I'll not bother again.

My parents were saying the observer is something ridiculous like £4 or £5 now and we're not impressed.

 

[PR1Berske]

I'm happy to share that the Guardian is giving publicity to some Met Police Officers who appear to have sightly better relations with young people of colour than the majority of their colleagues

 

[Rob Ray]

I was the first person to sign up for a three-year cruise. Here's why | Meredith Shay

As I approach my vintage years, why not spend life doing something I love – travelling and meeting new people, says former flight attendant Meredith Shay

www.theguardian.com

For me, it won’t be an inexpensive trip because I’ve chosen a seventh-floor cabin with a balcony. The total spend for my cabin is $562,000, over three years. I’m young at heart, but I’m a mature adult and I need the extra comfort. I invested well over my life, and have the money to spend. As I approach my vintage years, I certainly can’t take the money with me and I have no dependents, so why not spend it doing something I love – travelling and meeting new people?

Yes indeed, I can't think of any better ways to spend half a million quid than slowly chewing your way through a small ocean of fuel hanging out with the sort of "new people from all walks of life" who can also afford to spend vast sums of money on years-long cruise holidays. None at all. Now get out of the way of the gangplank, peasant.

 

[bluescreen]

I was the first person to sign up for a three-year cruise. Here's why | Meredith Shay

As I approach my vintage years, why not spend life doing something I love – travelling and meeting new people, says former flight attendant Meredith Shay

www.theguardian.com

Yes indeed, I can't think of any better ways to spend half a million quid than slowly chewing your way through a small ocean of fuel hanging out with the sort of "new people from all walks of life" who can also afford to spend vast sums of money on years-long cruise holidays. None at all. Now get out of the way of the gangplank, peasant.

I was about to post that. Astonishing. I guess the Graun is aiming at the US online market rather than impoverished Brits.

 

[Rob Ray]

Three posts above a piece about the climate crisis being the biggest health emergency of our time, a couple of sections below an article on the cost of living crisis that informs us groceries and new clothes are beyond people's means atm, just over from the article about record high ocean temperatures. From the paper that brought us Cruise ships are back. And it’s a catastrophe for the environment | Kim Heacox and US cruise ships using Canada as a ‘toilet bowl’ for polluted waste.

 

[bluescreen]

Three posts above a piece about the climate crisis being the biggest health emergency of our time, a couple of sections below an article on the cost of living crisis that informs us groceries and new clothes are beyond people's means atm, just over from the article about record high ocean temperatures. From the paper that brought us Cruise ships are back. And it’s a catastrophe for the environment | Kim Heacox and US cruise ships using Canada as a ‘toilet bowl’ for polluted waste.

Can't expect consistency when they have a paper/advertising to sell.

 

[stavros]

I was about to post that. Astonishing. I guess the Graun is aiming at the US online market rather than impoverished Brits.

Where does the Graun website rank in terms of UK news sites internationally, traffic-wise? I imagine it's well behind the BBC and the Mail, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was third.

 

[belboid]

Where does the Graun website rank in terms of UK news sites internationally, traffic-wise? I imagine it's well behind the BBC and the Mail, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was third.

you are correct. Surprisingly close behind the Mail as well

Top 50 news websites in the world in March 2023: New York Times sees further large fall in visits

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