Last Updated: May 2025
Check out how to remove The Economist paywall, so you can read unlimited free articles right away.
Most of the tips in Quora are out dated and cannot work any more.
So is the Remove Economic Paywall 2023 user script in Greasy Spoon.
In addition most of the pages listed Google search results page for the keyword phrase "bypass The Economist paywall" is old and not really helpful.
It is because now it is using the hard paywall.
A hard paywall means you have to pay to read almost everything on a website.
So if you want to get hold on The Economist web articles without subscription, then follow the tips below.
Welcome to another post from The DiGiztal Paywall Access Tips Series.
Let's see how people could still access The Economist premium articles without subscription.
At the time of publishing this post, the following methods how to read The Economist website work perfectly.
Access The Economist articles for free
Besides the controversial Bypass Paywalls Clean extension by magnolia1234, you can use the equally popular method to unlock The Economist paywalled articles.
Yes, I am talking about the web-archiving service called Archive.Today.
Archive.Today
Use the archiving site Archive.Today to read the blocked Economist articles.
Firstly, you can check whether the particular article which you want to read has been archived.
If it has been archived, then you can read it right away.
This is what you do:
Go to Archive.Today site.
Scroll down a little, there is a black color box with the text: "I want to search the archive for saved snapshots".
For example you want to read The Economist article, "Tinned fish is swimming against the tide".
Copy the article URL, by right clicking on the article title.
The context menu pops up, click on the "Copy Link" (Firefox) or "Copy link address" (Chrome).
Now paste the article URL inside the space provided at the black box.
Then click the "search" button.
If the article is already archived, it will appear on the page.
To read the full unblocked article, click on the image, the title or the URL.
Find out more on how to use Archive.Today to unlock paywalled articles for free tips.
These two techniques can still get you to read The Economist paywalled articles for free.
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