All these tips how to remove Financial Times paywall has been discussed, shared in Reddit, Quora Question and Answer site and Hacker News.
I am just curating them here for informational purposes only.
Remember bypassing paywalls can violate the terms of service of some websites, the Anti-circumvention provisions, Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, and Copyright infringement.
Welcome to another post from The DiGiztal Bypass Paywalls Tips series.
Forget all those outdated methods suggested in Reddit or Quora: outline.com, incognito window, 12 Feet Ladder or disable JavaScript.
I have tried them out and they do not get past Financial Times paywall.
The tips below definitely work, even in year 2025.
How to read Financial Times articles for free
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People have been using any of these four 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 extension by Magnolia1234.
Install and pin it to your browser toolbar, and you are set to go.
For more details how and where they get this free tool, 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
From what I read, people can read the Financial Times website content for free with this archive site called Archive.Today.
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.
Refer to this tutorial how to use Archive.Today to bypass paywalled articles for free.
3. 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.
After reading a few articles, and if it stops working, close all the tabs and clear Financial times cookies.
In other words, clear your browsing History, redo as suggested above.
4. Googlebot user agent
This is a sneaky way which many use to access paywalled websites.
By pretending to be Googlebot to get access to the locked content.
You use the WebTools or web developer tools to do it.
Read this tutorial how to to spoof user agent as Googlebot to bypass paywall.
5. Hover Paywall extension
This method to get the paywalled Financial webpages is the same as tip #4 by impersonating as Google bot.
Instead of doing it manually, as explained above, you just click the browser extension called Hover Paywall.
After installing the extension, you must enabled the "Bypass Paywalls" settings and then go to Advanced and click "Spoof Site as Crawler".
To know how to download and install, refer to Hover Paywall guide.
So these are the ways to bypass Financial paywall, so you can view unlimited articles without having to subscribe.
NOTE: These methods may not involve direct hacking or unauthorized access, they can still violate anti-circumvention laws and terms of service. Consider using the legal and ethical ways to access paywalled web articles.
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