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Washington Post To Go Paywall, Along With Buffett-Owned Local Papers

Posted by timothy on from the interesting-use-of-the-word-reportedly dept.

McGruber writes "The Washington Post reports that the Washington Post, and local newspapers owned by Warren Buffett, are all planning to follow the New York Times and install metered paywalls." Buffett's got more than 80 papers right now, and hasn't quit buying them. There's some time to read the WaPo sans paywall, but by mid-year it may be up.

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  1. Online International Newspapers by TwoOfBob · · Score: 5, Interesting

    With the easy access to quality international newspapers why would one use Washington Post?

  2. Firefox to the rescue by vivek7006 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Firefox rules. I have been using addons refcontrol to take care of paywalled websites like nytimes.com, wsj.com etc.
    linky: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/refcontrol/

  3. Re:I don't get it. by Jah-Wren+Ryel · · Score: 5, Informative

    What am I missing? Is there separate pages that paid subscribers are seeing that I am not? More articles available? What?

    The NYTimes paywall is intended to let everybody read a limited number of articles per month with no hassle at all - exceed the limit and you run into a paywall on all of their articles. The thing is that it relies on cookies in your browsers to keep track of how many articles you've read. So, if you do things like spoof your referrer to be google and never let their website set a cookie, you are unlikely to ever be hassled by their paywall.

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    When information is power, privacy is freedom.