Henri Cook

02 Dec, 2009

Free access to Pay Wall sites by disguising yourself as Google

Posted by: Henri Cook In: General Ramblings| Life| Technical Support

Free Wall Street Journal, if this interests… it might also work for various academic papers and for all these othersites that are about to throw up Pay Walls

… vive la resistance

Install this in firefox:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/953

Add a site:

Site: wsj.com
Action, Custom: http://www.google.com/news/

Disable RefControl (right click on the little icon you’ll see at the bottom of your firefox window)

Go to:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703735004574569873588687170.html

you’ll see “TO CONTINUE READING, SUBSCRIBE NOW”..

Enable RefControl (spoof our referrer) and reload the page

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