- Galveston Property Values Rising to Pre-Ike Levels [Houston Chronicle ($)]
- The Palm Reopens Today After $5M Buildout, Featuring More Seating, New Bar, Mural of Houston [Houston Chronicle ($)]
- $334M, Year-Long Plan To Add, Widen Toll Lanes in Harris County [Houston Chronicle ($)]
- League City To Add 4 Miles of Biking, Hiking Trails [Galveston County Daily News ($)]
- Rising Mortgage Rates Not Expected To Affect Houston Real Estate Market [Houston Chronicle ($)]
- Seawall Parking Signs Going Up, Program May or May Not Start Later This Month [Galveston County Daily News ($)]
- Some Houston Streets Suffer from a Multiple Personality Disorder [The Highwayman]
- Condo Owners Near Hershey Beach Tired of Large Crowds That Litter, Trespass, Trample Dune Grass [Galveston County Daily News ($)]
- South Voss Texas Art Supply Updates West Texas-Themed Mural [The Great God Pan Is Dead]
Photo of Texas Art Supply on Voss near Westheimer: Robert Boyd via Swamplot Flickr Pool
Sweet. Two free articles out of nine. Time to look for some new sources.
Do a Google search for the URL of the chron.com articles and follow the link.
@Rodrigo, it CAN be done, but it makes for a very messy reading experience, there’s gotta be a better way.
Commonsense, do you mean to tell me that you read the Chronicle’s pay-only articles without subscribing?
Not sure if you’re being sarcastic or what. Of course everyone reads their articles without paying, and if they close that loophole then they will die a slow death like evey other site that chose that ancient pay for subscription model.
Here you go guys, an easy way to get behind the paywall
http://bit.ly/12dh30z
;)
Just saying, when you’re enjoying the fruits of someone else’s labor without paying your fair share for it.. you know.. I had just never figured you for a socialist is all.
Quite the contrary, Ian, I am paying exactly what their labor is worth… nothing. If the quality of their articles or my need for their articles forced me to pay their asking price, then perhaps I would pay, but as it stands now, I either read them for free or don’t read them at all. And that’s basic capitalist principle of supply and demand.
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They should embrace ad driven content or at least nurture their brand to the point where people would WANT to pay for better product … like Apple, Ferrari, Coca Cola etc.
Ian: His point is they allow the loophole because closing it would cause a DECREASE in $ for chron. They need eyeballs from their advertisers. That’s where the $ is at.
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If they could get a few million more people to view for “free”, then whoever found a way to drive in that free loophole traffic would get a giant bonus.
two things, there’s no advertising beyond the chron paywall. they actually designed it so you could do exactly what is done, it even says it on the page when you view it
“FREE ACCESS VIEW
You’ve been granted free access to this Houston Chronicle article.”
it’s not my fault that the chron programmers don’t use cookies to tell how many times I use the free access view, and then shut me down after a certain number of attempts.
if someone charges entry into a club, but then leaves the back door unattended and open, with a sign above that says “free access” you better bet I’m going to keep going through that door until someone decides to close/lock it.
Whatever helps you sleep at night, comrades.
/wink wink
Do you have a subscription to that fishwrap, Ian? Really?