This is how to get past The Wall Street Journal paywall, so you do not have to subscribe to read its online content for free.
In short, how to read WSJ for free.
Welcome to another helpful content from the series, DiGiztal Bypass Paywalls Tips.
The Wall Street Journal website (WSJ), is filled with breaking news and current headlines from the US and around the world.
Top stories, photos, videos, detailed analysis and in-depth opinions.
So if you want to browse its news reports, stories and views, probably you can go behind its paywall to check them out.
But I strongly urge you to subscribe to WSJ, and keep abreast with the latest happenings around the world that matters.
Currently you can still find many outdated, unreliable or unworkable remove WSJ paywall tips ranking in the Google search results pages.
They are from Quora, Reddit, Hacker News and Medium site.
For example, a WikiHow reader recommended the Unlocker Chrome extension, which cannot work anymore.
So is the Bypass Paywall UserScripts of Greasy Fork, which cannot even bypass NYTimes paywall.
Then the Bypass Paywalls extension mentioned in 4-year old Reddit posting, which has taken down by DMCA.
But anyway that original Bypass Paywalls version cannot get through WSJ paywall.
So, what's left for you to get around the WSJ paywall?
If you still want to read full WSJ articles for free for the time being, refer the tips below.
In fact I have already shared two ways in this updated 2018 blog post, "How to read The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Financial Times articles free".
It seems lost in this post, together The New York Times and Financial Times.
So I am taking it out, and republish it here by itself.
Read The Wall Street Journal articles free
- Archive.Today
- Bypass Paywalls Clean extension
1. Archive.Today
The free archive site called Archive.Today, which stores snapshots of web pages, can still get you to gain unlimited access to WSJ blocked articles.
If the article which you want to read, which has already archived, it would prompt you that it is available.
You can read right there.
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.
If that article has already archived, you can read it straight away.
But if it is not archived, wait for it to finish archiving, then you can view the complete article.
Archive.Today extension
For convenience, install the Archive.Today extension for Chrome browser.
Click here for Chrome Archive Today Extension.
After you have installed the extension, you can see its its icon (globe with the share symbol) at the toolbar.
These are three (3) ways how to use the Archive Today extension to access The Wall Street Journal articles.
i. Click Archive.Today icon
When you come to the blocked article, click the Archive Today icon at the toolbar.
It will take you to the Archive Today site.
If the article has already archived, then you can read it there and then.
If not, then it says "No results" and you have to archive it.
ii. Click article text
When you are at the blocked article page, click anywhere on the article text .
A context menu pops up, then click "Search archive.today for page".
Similarly it takes you to the Archive Today site.
Again if the page have already been archived, you can see it right away.
If it is still not archived, then archive it, so you can view it.
iii. Right click article title
The third way is when you are the WSJ homepage, or at the search engine results pages.
Right click the article title.
A context menu box pops up, move your mouse cursor from "Archive" to "Archive link" and "Search link".
Click any of the two options.
When you click the "Archive link", and if the article is already archived, you can read it straight away.
If not, automatically it will start loading and archived it for you.
When you click on the "Search link", and if the article is already archived, you can see it right there.
But if the article is still not archived, it says "No results".
You have to click on the hyperlink "archive this url", then click the "save" button.
Then wait for it to archive it.
NOTE: Mozilla Firefox has removed Archive.Today extension from its store.
But you can use this similar One-Click Today.Archive extension.
2. Bypass Paywalls Clean extension
This latter version Bypass Paywalls Clean by Magnolia still can get around the WSJ paywall.
But the original version Bypass Paywalls does not work.
All you need to do is just install and pin it to your browser toolbar.
For Firefox browser, follow this tutorial: "How to install Bypass Paywalls Clean extension for Firefox".
For Google Chrome browser, follow this tutorial: "How to install Bypass Paywalls Clean for Chrome".
These two paywall removers for WSJ articles can still work in 2024.
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