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Firstly you can check whether the particular article has been archived.
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.
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.
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.
It opens the dashboard page, click "Filter lists" tab.
Scroll all the way down until "> Import".
Click it, instantly a box appears below.
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.
You can see "Bypass Paywalls Clean filter" listed under Custom.
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.
At the Shields settings, make sure "Block scripts" setting is disabled (grey color).
It means to allow JavaScript.
Next click "Content filtering" on the right side bottom.
It opens a new page, at the Filter list, click the "Show full list" button.
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.
Scroll down at the the end of the filter list, and click "Update lists".
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".
- Read this tutorial how to use Brave browser to bypass paywalls.
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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