These are tips how to remove Financial Times paywall that many having asking in Reddit, Hacker News and Quora.
Welcome to another original post from the series, DiGiztal Bypass Paywalls Tips.
Forget all those outdated methods: outline.com, incognito window, 12feet.io, or disable JavaScript.
They do not get past ft.com paywall.
How to read Financial Times articles for free
- Bypass Paywalls Clean extension
- Archive.Today
- Google cache pages
- JavaScript bookmarklet
Check out these four workable methods to continue reading its latest articles on business and economic current affairs.
1. Bypass Paywalls Clean extension
One way to beat financial Times paywall is using the popular Bypass Paywalls Clean by Magnolia.
Install and pin it to your browser toolbar, and you set to go.
For more details, refer to the tutorials below:
For Firefox, refer to this tutorial: How to install Bypass Paywalls Clean for Firefox
For Chrome: refer to this tutorial: How to install Bypass Paywalls Clean for Chrome
2. Archive.Today
Again this method works for both Firefox and Chrome browser.
Use the free archive site called Archive.Today to read locked-out articles.
Besides pasting in the article URL in the first box, you can go directly the second black box.
Paste the article URL inside this box, to check whether the saved arched article is available.
If that particular article is still not archived, it says "No results", together with the list of 5 options to do.
Click the first option, "archive this url".
It would begin loading and archiving the article.
After it has finished archiving it, you can see the unblocked Financial Time article right there.
3. Google cached pages
This easy and simple method to get free access to the Financial Times.
For example you want to read the article, "‘The AI bill driving a wedge through Silicon Valley".
The article URL is:
https://www.ft.com/content/c5e7bf0b-cadc-4673-b2d8-daa9d89f2230
Prepend or add cache: in front of the URL.
It looks like this:
cache:https://www.ft.com/content/c5e7bf0b-cadc-4673-b2d8-daa9d89f2230
Press the "Enter" key, and it shows you the Google cached page with the full story unblocked.
4. JavaScript bookmarklet
This is what you do:
Copy the code below and bookmark it to your browser.
For convenience, save it at the bookmark bar.
javascript:window.location='https://google.com/search?q='+window.location.href;
When you are the paywalled Financial Times article, click the JavaScript bookmarklet.
Example:
This article, "Peru’s former president Alberto Fujimori dies aged 86" is blocked.
Click the JavaScript bookmark let.
Automatically it redirects to a Google search of that article.
Click the article in the search result, and you will see the full unblocked article.
NOTE: After reading a few articles, and if it stops working, close all the tabs and clear Financial times cookies.
So these are the ways to bypass Financial paywall, so you can view unlimited articles without having to subscribe.
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