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How to bypass Bloomberg paywall to read article for free

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Last Updated: September 2024

Check out these latest tips how to get past Bloomberg paywall.

In other words, how to read Bloomberg articles for free.

Another relevant and useful content from the series, DiGiztal Bypass Paywalls Tips.

If I am not mistaken, there is no more complimentary article anymore.

When you click any of the Bloomberg.com articles, you can only read the introduction, followed with a few rows of moving grey lines.

Then a big black banner box roll up from below with a bold reminder "Subscribe now for uninterrupted access". 

In short, you have to be a subscriber, if you want to keep viewing its digital content.

This is an updated post. The original post was published way back in the year 2020.

Most of the usual methods do not work anymore.

That include: open link in incognito window, saved to Pocket, disabling cookies, disable Javascript, or the popular 12feet Ladder. 

Anyway, you can still remove Bloomberg paywall with these following techniques.

Access Bloomberg articles free

  • Archive.Today
  • Bypass Paywalls Clean extension
  • uBlock Origin/Bypass Paywalls Clean filter
  • Brave browser/Bypass Paywalls Clean filter
  • Google search results

I have tried them out, and they get past its paywall without any hitch.

1. Archive.Today

Firstly you can check whether the particular article has been archived.

If it does, then you can read it right away.

This is what you do:

Scroll down until you see the blue color box with the text: "I want to search the archive for saved snapshots".

How to bypass Bloomberg paywall

Now go back to Bloomberg site and select the article which you want to read.

Copy the article URL.

To do that, you placed your mouse cursor over the article title.

Right click it, and the context menu pops up.

Click "Copy Link".

Now paste it inside the space provided at the blue box.

Then click the "search" button.

If the article is already archived, it will appear on the page.

If you cannot find the article there, then you have to archive it.

This is what you do:

Go back to Archive.Today.

This time go to the red color box with the text "My url is alive and I want to archive its content".

Paste the Bloomberg article URL in the space provided inside this red box.

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Next click the "save" button. Then wait....

Once it has finishing archiving, you can view the complete Bloomberg article.


2. Bypass Paywalls Clean extension

This method of free Bloomberg web access, is using the popular Bypass Paywalls Clean extension by Magnolia.

For Firefox browser, follow this tutorial: "How to install Bypass Paywalls Clean extension for Firefox".

For Google Chrome browser, follow this tutorial: "How to install Bypass Paywalls Clean for Chrome".


3. uBlock Origin/Bypass Paywalls Clean filter

For either Chrome or Firefox browser, install uBlock Origin extension.

Then add the Bypass Paywalls Clean filter.

It is similar to what I have shown in: "How to bypass The New York Times paywall with uBlock Origin".

This is how you do it:

STEP 1: Install uBlock Origin

For Firefox browser, go to this site, and click the "Add to Firefox" button 

For Chrome browser, go to this site, and click the "Add to Chrome" button.

Follow the instruction and install it to your browser.

Then pin the uBlock Origin icon to the toolbar.

Follow the instructions and install uBlock Origin to your browser.
uBlock Origin Bypass NYTimes Paywall

STEP 2: Set up filter lists

Click the small uBlock Origin icon at the toolbar.

A box pops up, click the three cog wheels at the bottom right hand corner.

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It opens the dashboard page, click "Filter lists" tab.

Bypass Bloomberg Paywall uBlock origin Extension

Scroll all the way down until "> Import".

Click it, instantly a box appears below.

Read Bloomberg Free With uBlock Origin

Type this line inside the box: 

https://gitflic.ru/project/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-clean-filters/blob/raw?file=bpc-paywall-filter.txt

Then go up and click "Apply changes" button.

Bypass Bloomberg paywall with uBlock Origin

You can see "Bypass Paywalls Clean filter" listed under Custom.

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Now go to Bloomberg homepage to read all the articles, without being blocked by its paywall again. 


4. Brave browser/Bypass Paywalls Clean filter

There are two ways of doing it.

i) Use the Brave browser built-in Bypass Paywalls Clean filter

To use the existing filter, this is what you do:

At the Brave browser, click the three short horizontal lines (aka Hamburger menu) at the top right hand corner.

A menu drops down, click "Settings".

Click "Shields" on the left side of the page.

How To Remove Paywalls from  Brave Browser

At the Shields settings, make sure "Block scripts" setting is disabled (grey color).

It means to allow JavaScript. 

Brave Browser Block Scripts Setting

Next click "Content filtering" on the right side bottom.

Bypass Bloomberg Paywall With Brave Browser

It opens a new page, at the Filter list, click the "Show full list" button.

Brave Browser Bypass Paywall

It drops down further, and you can see "Bypass Paywalls Clean Filters".

Click the small box in front, and a white tick sign with the blue background appears.

Bypass Paywalls Clean Filter Brave Browser

Scroll down at the the end of the filter list, and click "Update lists".

Brave Browser Access Articles Free

As it finishes updating, it changes to "List updated".

That's all.

ii) Add custom filter

The second method is similar to what I have explained in #3 uBlock Origin extension.

You add the same custom filter to the Brave browser.

This is what you do:

Again go to "Settings", click "Shields", and make sure the "Block scripts" setting is disabled (grey color).

Then click "Content filtering".

Next go down to "Add custom filter lists".

Paste the same filter into the space provided.

https://gitflic.ru/project/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-clean-filters/blob/raw?file=bpc-paywall-filter.txt

Click the "Add" button, and you can see it under the "custom lists".

Custom Filter Brave Browser Bloomberg Paywall
Now you are ready to access Bloomberg blocked articles for free.


4. Google search results

This is not a reliable way to read Bloomberg articles for free, but it works.  

You cannot find all the full articles in the Google search results.

They are just random articles and stories picked up by news aggregators sites, particularly Yahoo! Finance.

For instance, this article, "European Luxury Shares’ $240 Billion Rout Is Just the Beginning".

If you go to Bloomberg website, it is locked out.

But I copied out the article title and googled it.

Well, I found it in the Google search results page.

The full unblocked article was published in Yahoo Finance section and The Business Times.

So, these are Bloomberg paywall bypass techniques you can use to browse its website content without an account. 


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