The Wall Street Journal to Close Google Loophole Entirely

Post by haaen » Mon, Feb 13, 2017, 3:39 PM UTC

dankohn1 wrote: post #53

wfunction wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bookmarklet for Facebook: javascript:window.location="https://m.facebook.com/l.php?u="+encodeURIComponent(window.location.href); Bookmarklet for Google: javascript:window.location="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&url="+encodeURIComponent(window.location.href);

This is awesome. Just for folks who aren't clear how to create a bookmarklet: Create a bookmark of any page, by going to a URL such as https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB122878081364889613 (note that only the top part of the page loads) and enter Cmd (or Ctrl) D. Now Save the bookmark to your bookmark bar. Find the bookmark, right click, and replace the WSJ URL with the javascript URL in the parent post. Save and now tes…

Post by ikeboy » Thu, Feb 16, 2017, 3:38 PM UTC

ikeboy wrote: post #18

https://support.google.com/news/publisher/answer/40543?hl=en... According to this, it will need to mark WSJ links differently in Google News. Interestingly, I tested it and links from Google news still had a "First Click Free", contrary to OP. To test: 1. Go to https://news.google.com/ from a computer that hasn't visited any WSJ articles that day 2. Click on a WSJ link (mine was https://www.wsj.com/articles/daniel-ta…

Post by pascalxus » Mon, Feb 20, 2017, 6:26 AM UTC

idiot_stick wrote: post #135

pascalxus wrote: post #4

First of all, I think it's great that journalists can get compensated for their work. but, strictly speaking as a consumer, I must say their paywall is completely out of touch with the way I want to pay for news consumption. I don't mind paying 5c or even 10c per article, but I'm certainly not going to sign up to pay 120$ for 6 months, if I'm only going to read 1 or 2 articles here and there. but since they've done i…

So 15 minutes of entertainment time to you (the time spent consuming a WSJ article) is worth 5 or 10 cents? Imagine if you were compensated at the same rate for your work. I suggest you try to find a substitute for those entertainment pennies. If you can, and that item is "free", good for you. But I doubt 5 or 10 cents gets you much.