Last Updated: June 2025
Currently this is how to get past South China Morning Post paywall that still works.
This is another original content from The 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.
It covers a wide range of topics: news, business & tech, lifestyle and critical insights and analysis on China.
The out of date tip using 12feet mentioned in Reddit and the Google Chrome extension "South China Morning Clearance" cannot get through this paywall.
Recently I found there are two ways to circumvent SCMP paywall, in order to read its online content for free.
- NOTE: These two methods can also access its weekly Sunday magazine PostMag for free.
How to bypass South China Morning Post paywall
1. Bypass Paywalls Clean extension
It works for both google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox browser.
Here is the guide how to install Bypass Paywalls Clean extension for Chrome.
Here is the guide how to install Bypass Paywalls Clean extension for Firefox.
2. Archive.Today
Use the free archive site called Archive.Today, which stores snapshots of web pages.
If the article which you want to read which has already archived, it would prompt you that it is available.
But if it is not archived, then you have to wait for awhile for it to archive it, before you can read it.
This is what you do:
Go to Archive.Today.
Paste the locked For Subscribers article URL in the space provided under "My url is alive and I want to archive its content".
Next click the "save" button.
Find out more about how to use Archive.Today to bypass paywalled articles for free.
From my experience, these are two ways how to bypass South China Morning Post paywall.
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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