As many will know there's a limit on the number of articles you can read online in a month with various Fairfax newspapers including The Age, Brisbane Times, Sydney Morning Herald, WA Today & Canberra Times.
Once you read about 25 articles it starts to tell you that you're approaching their limit. At 30 articles per month it stops you, encourages you to subscribe and then redirects you to the home page. It appears that they're tracking this via your computers IP address.
I've discovered a few ways to work around this challenge (call it a social hack).
The easiest way is to simply read a different affiliated newspaper. They all share articles so the same national headlines tend to replicate across all the publications in the group. You do tend to miss out on local news, but the 30 article limit isn't counted across different publications (so far).
The other way is to browse privately. I've only tested it on the Firefox brower but I presume it's available on other browsers. In Firefox, right click on the link and select, "Open in new private window". A new window appears with full access to the article (although commenting might be a challenge).
I've been playing with this for a few days without a problem. If you open more than 30 articles in a single sitting you'll hit the limit again, but simply close all instances of the browser and the counter appears to reset.
Once you read about 25 articles it starts to tell you that you're approaching their limit. At 30 articles per month it stops you, encourages you to subscribe and then redirects you to the home page. It appears that they're tracking this via your computers IP address.
I've discovered a few ways to work around this challenge (call it a social hack).
The easiest way is to simply read a different affiliated newspaper. They all share articles so the same national headlines tend to replicate across all the publications in the group. You do tend to miss out on local news, but the 30 article limit isn't counted across different publications (so far).
The other way is to browse privately. I've only tested it on the Firefox brower but I presume it's available on other browsers. In Firefox, right click on the link and select, "Open in new private window". A new window appears with full access to the article (although commenting might be a challenge).
I've been playing with this for a few days without a problem. If you open more than 30 articles in a single sitting you'll hit the limit again, but simply close all instances of the browser and the counter appears to reset.
