Last Updated: May 2025
This is how people read articles behind paywall website of this Australian tabloid newspaper website digital articles without an account.
In other words, how to read Herald Sun for free online.
This is for informational purposes only.
It's important to respect the terms of use of websites and pay for the content you consume, or consider subscribing to the publication if you want full access to their articles.
This is another post from The DiGiztal Bypass Paywalls Tips series.
All the usual methods how to read its paid articles for free do not work anymore.
Forget about 12feet ladder, open link in Incognito window, or spoofing user-agent as Googlebot trick.
So are the outdated tips like, using Obin.net, anti-paywall extension, or changing the hostname in the URL from “heraldsun.com.au” to “news.com.au.
Unfortunately Google still indexed and ranked all these sites for the search query "how to bypass Herald sun paywall".
Strangely, the Google Update is supposed to reduce the unhelpful content, to ensure the most helpful information on the web.
No wonder people are complaining Google search isn't helpful anymore.
I believe this is the latest (2025) and the only online article about bypassing Herald Sun paywall.
Read Herald Sun articles for free
1. Archive.Today
People can still the Herald Sun articles for free with Archive.Today.
Go to Herald Sun homepage.
Copy out the the article URL.
Now go to Archive.Today homepage.
Paste the article URL in the box provided.
Then click the "save" button.
If that particular article has been archived, the full article would appear right away.
For example this article, "Trump to call Putin, invites Zelensky back to White House".
It has already archived, so the article pops up right away, at: https://archive.ph/1c4jH#selection-783.0-783.57.
If not, then they have to archive it first.
At times, they might have problem archiving it, and get this remarks, Not Found (yet?).
Then they have to re-archive it again.
Here is another article titled "Stephen Dank: Essendon supplement scandal figure still wanted in fraud, forgery case but police yet to execute warrant" that they have re-archived.
So far what i know to get past Herald Sun paywall, they have to use the web arching tool Archive.Today.
This is a more detailed tutorial how to use Archive.Today to bypass paywalled articles for free.
2. Bypass Paywalls Clean extension
Yes, they are still using the amazing Bypass Paywalls Clean extension by magnolia1234 to remove Herald Sun paywall.
For Firefox users, they refer to this tutorial: "How to install Bypass Paywalls Clean extension for Firefox".
For Google Chrome users, they follow this tip: "How to install Bypass Paywalls Clean for Chrome".
NOTE: These method 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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