September 11, 2024

How to bypass South China Morning Post paywall to read articles for free

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The latest workable way is to Install the Bypass Paywalls Clean extension to your Firefox browser.

Last Updated: March 2025

Currently this is how to get past South China Morning Post paywall that still works.

This is another original content from the popular DiGiztal Bypass Paywalls Tips series.

You can still read the South China Morning Post (SCMP) website content, including SCMP Exclusives and PostMag for free.

SCMP is Hong Kong-based English-language newspaper owned by Alibaba Group, and it covers a wide range of topics: news, business & tech, lifestyle and critical insights and analysis on China.

The two methods (Archive.Today and Google search results pages) which I have suggested before, they cannot work anymore.

The dated tip using 12feet mentioned in Reddit and the Google Chrome extension "South China Morning Clearance" also cannot get through this paywall. 

Recently I found there is only way to circumvent SCMP paywall, in order to read its online content for free, without subscription.

How to bypass South China Morning Post paywall

  • Bypass Paywalls Clean
Another condition is, it only works for Mozilla Firefox browser.

I find that it doesn't work consistently with Chrome browser.

But when I use Bypass Paywalls Clean extension with Firefox, it works all the time.


Install the Firefox browser extension, and try it our for yourself.

From my experience, this is the only way how to bypass South China Morning Post paywall.

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