Comments on: Salon shows how to read WSJ for free http://boingboing.net/2008/03/21/salon-shows-how-to-r.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:24:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: malcolmkass http://boingboing.net/2008/03/21/salon-shows-how-to-r.html#comment-147972 malcolmkass Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-147972 People who read Salon are intellectual backwater, nothing more that clildren of the wealthy and powerful. I am glad they will read the WSJ, it will teach them how to think. People who read Salon are intellectual backwater, nothing more that clildren of the wealthy and powerful. I am glad they will read the WSJ, it will teach them how to think.

]]> By: zuzu http://boingboing.net/2008/03/21/salon-shows-how-to-r.html#comment-147754 zuzu Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-147754 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referer" rel="nofollow">http-refer</a> is a particularly nasty part of the <a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616" rel="nofollow">HTTP RFC</a>. I'd like to ask whoever suggested it what they were thinking. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stateless_server" rel="nofollow">Statelessness</a> is a feature not a bug. http-refer is a particularly nasty part of the HTTP RFC. I’d like to ask whoever suggested it what they were thinking. Statelessness is a feature not a bug.

]]> By: Michael R. Bernstein http://boingboing.net/2008/03/21/salon-shows-how-to-r.html#comment-149299 Michael R. Bernstein Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-149299 Refspoof is easier to install from this page: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4513 Refspoof is easier to install from this page:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4513

]]> By: astrochimp http://boingboing.net/2008/03/21/salon-shows-how-to-r.html#comment-147766 astrochimp Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-147766 Next will they show us how to read Salon without a cookie infestation and mandatory ad click-throughs just to read an entire article? Next will they show us how to read Salon without a cookie infestation and mandatory ad click-throughs just to read an entire article?

]]> By: Elvis Gump http://boingboing.net/2008/03/21/salon-shows-how-to-r.html#comment-147768 Elvis Gump Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-147768 Oh I love me some Salon. I like the irony of this story too because I like keeping http://www.salon.com/news/cookie756.html?aid=158 bookmarked to skip those annoying as fuck Salon ads when I pop open all my tabs in Firefox in the morning. Once you view one of those annoying ad things you this allows you to access that cookie is smears in your system. During the day sometimes when you come back to Salon and your cookie has 'expired' and you get that annoying "Choose how to view this article" nonsense, you just click that bookmark and you land back in the story link you just got booted out of. Hey, information wants to be FREE right? Oh I love me some Salon. I like the irony of this story too because I like keeping http://www.salon.com/news/cookie756.html?aid=158 bookmarked to skip those annoying as fuck Salon ads when I pop open all my tabs in Firefox in the morning. Once you view one of those annoying ad things you this allows you to access that cookie is smears in your system.

During the day sometimes when you come back to Salon and your cookie has ‘expired’ and you get that annoying “Choose how to view this article” nonsense, you just click that bookmark and you land back in the story link you just got booted out of.

Hey, information wants to be FREE right?

]]> By: Elvis Gump http://boingboing.net/2008/03/21/salon-shows-how-to-r.html#comment-147770 Elvis Gump Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-147770 Also I just want to tell you that BoingBoing is the one of the few sites I disable the AdBlockPlus Firefox extension on, but Salon like a lot of sites can kiss my ass with all those banners and inserts. Also I just want to tell you that BoingBoing is the one of the few sites I disable the AdBlockPlus Firefox extension on, but Salon like a lot of sites can kiss my ass with all those banners and inserts.

]]> By: Eli http://boingboing.net/2008/03/21/salon-shows-how-to-r.html#comment-147771 Eli Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-147771 Great! Now it's only fair to point out that if you create/edit a cookie named SALON_PREMIUM with the value: SALN_REG%3DY%2CUSERNAME%3DSHOE_ON_OTHER_FOOT%2CSALN_SHOW_ADS%3DN%2C%2CSLNCRUMB%3Dx%0A you can read Salon.com as a premium user (without ads!) for free. Don't forget to set the cookie expiration in the far future. Great!

Now it’s only fair to point out that if you create/edit a cookie named SALON_PREMIUM with the value:

SALN_REG%3DY%2CUSERNAME%3DSHOE_ON_OTHER_FOOT%2CSALN_SHOW_ADS%3DN%2C%2CSLNCRUMB%3Dx%0A

you can read Salon.com as a premium user (without ads!) for free. Don’t forget to set the cookie expiration in the far future.

]]> By: BruceG http://boingboing.net/2008/03/21/salon-shows-how-to-r.html#comment-148283 BruceG Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-148283 This may have worked at the time the article was posted, but it doesn't anymore. A lot of the content on the wsj sight is free to begin with. The stuff that you need a password for, you still need a password for. This may have worked at the time the article was posted, but it doesn’t anymore. A lot of the content on the wsj sight is free to begin with. The stuff that you need a password for, you still need a password for.

]]> By: Razzabeth http://boingboing.net/2008/03/21/salon-shows-how-to-r.html#comment-147773 Razzabeth Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-147773 Why not just use www.bugmenot.com ? Then you don't have to install weird softwares for no reason. Why not just use http://www.bugmenot.com ? Then you don’t have to install weird softwares for no reason.

]]> By: Elvis Gump http://boingboing.net/2008/03/21/salon-shows-how-to-r.html#comment-147784 Elvis Gump Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-147784 You don't need to go all code writing show off to evade the cookie, just run one of those click through ads once and then look in your history folder and drag the one that shows up with "cookie" in it to your bookmarks and from now on click that when you want to go to Salon. I been doing this for years and have transfered that bookmark to multiple machines and browsers. You don’t need to go all code writing show off to evade the cookie, just run one of those click through ads once and then look in your history folder and drag the one that shows up with “cookie” in it to your bookmarks and from now on click that when you want to go to Salon. I been doing this for years and have transfered that bookmark to multiple machines and browsers.

]]> By: Eli http://boingboing.net/2008/03/21/salon-shows-how-to-r.html#comment-147785 Eli Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-147785 bugmenot for the WSJ.com? I really doubt that works. bugmenot for the WSJ.com? I really doubt that works.

]]> By: clementmunns http://boingboing.net/2008/03/21/salon-shows-how-to-r.html#comment-148084 clementmunns Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-148084 To those who think the WSJ is the NR...try using grey matter. An example of the difference would be the series of WSJ articles and editorial comments regarding the "black box" of Enron in the years leading up to the disaster. Enron didn't surprise me because I read WSJ. If you want to know what is happening in the real world where information is money, then the WSJ is required reading, no matter what political persuasion sways you. To those who think the WSJ is the NR…try using grey matter.

An example of the difference would be the series of WSJ articles and editorial comments regarding the “black box” of Enron in the years leading up to the disaster.

Enron didn’t surprise me because I read WSJ.

If you want to know what is happening in the real world where information is money, then the WSJ is required reading, no matter what political persuasion sways you.

]]> By: hyperkine http://boingboing.net/2008/03/21/salon-shows-how-to-r.html#comment-148103 hyperkine Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-148103 This Google News URL also works: http://news.google.com/news?svnum=10&as_scoring=n&hl=en&q=*+source%3Awall_street_journal&btnG=Search This Google News URL also works:

http://news.google.com/news?svnum=10&as_scoring=n&hl=en&q=*+source%3Awall_street_journal&btnG=Search

]]> By: Lobster http://boingboing.net/2008/03/21/salon-shows-how-to-r.html#comment-147850 Lobster Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-147850 Or you could always just go to National Review Online. Same editorials. Or you could always just go to National Review Online. Same editorials.

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