Daily Telegraph paywall

Pamela

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Jun 28, 2023, 10:12:01 AM6/28/23

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Is it my browser or has the Daily Telegraph paywall been down for the
last week or two?

No longer do I get a popup after a brief screen inviting me to
subscribe.

Is this due to some sort of promotion or could it be an oversight?

Harry Bloomfield Esq

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Jun 28, 2023, 12:12:07 PM6/28/23

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Dunno, no paywall here either. Using Firefox.

John Rumm

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Jun 28, 2023, 12:26:54 PM6/28/23

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On 28/06/2023 15:10, Pamela wrote:

> Is it my browser or has the Daily Telegraph paywall been down for the
> last week or two?
>
> No longer do I get a popup after a brief screen inviting me to
> subscribe.

Either Adblock plus or Ghostery (or a combination) blocks all the
paywall stuff on that site IME.

Also 12ft.io will tend to banish many paywalls.

Just shove it in front of the url, so for example:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/

would become:

12ft.io/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/

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Peter Able

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Jun 28, 2023, 12:40:10 PM6/28/23

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On 28/06/2023 17:26, John Rumm wrote:
> On 28/06/2023 15:10, Pamela wrote:
>
>> Is it my browser or has the Daily Telegraph paywall been down for the
>> last week or two?
>>
>> No longer do I get a popup after a brief screen inviting me to
>> subscribe.
>
> Either Adblock plus or Ghostery (or a combination) blocks all the
> paywall stuff on that site IME.
>
> Also 12ft.io will tend to banish many paywalls.
>
> Just shove it in front of the url, so for example:
>
> https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/
>
> would become:
>
> 12ft.io/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/
>
>>
>

Do you not see the banner "Try The Telegraph free for 1 month"?

PA

Peter Able

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Jun 28, 2023, 12:46:56 PM6/28/23

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Sorry, John, query meant for the OP and others.

PA

Andy Burns

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Jun 28, 2023, 12:56:42 PM6/28/23

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Peter Able wrote:

> Do you not see the banner "Try The Telegraph free for 1 month"?

I have seen a banner something like "this is normally a premium article,
you can view it free, but sign-up to see all articles" I just turn on
reader-mode or disable javascript instead.

Andrew

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Jun 28, 2023, 12:59:56 PM6/28/23

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Well since everyone can read it, try this :-

"The National Grid on Wednesday said it had ended talks with the two
companies about keeping open West Burton A, in Nottinghamshire, and two
coal-fired units at Drax’s plant in Selby, Yorkshire, after they made
clear that the sites would not be available."

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/06/28/britain-left-without-emergency-coal-reserves-winter/

Pamela

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Jun 29, 2023, 10:16:52 AM6/29/23

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On 17:26 28 Jun 2023, John Rumm said:
> On 28/06/2023 15:10, Pamela wrote:
>>
>> Is it my browser or has the Daily Telegraph paywall been down for
>> the last week or two?
>>
>> No longer do I get a popup after a brief screen inviting me to
>> subscribe.
>
> Either Adblock plus or Ghostery (or a combination) blocks all the
> paywall stuff on that site IME.

Some ad blocker built into my Firefox browser could be doing it,
although I don't know that I have one installed but several other sites
complain about it.

> Also 12ft.io will tend to banish many paywalls.
>
> Just shove it in front of the url, so for example:
>
> https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ would become:
> 12ft.io/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/

That works well. Archive Today works in a similar way but it slower:

https://archive.today/submit/?PUT-URL-HERE