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As you can probably tell from a previous post<\/a>, I’m not a fan of paywalls\u2014especially poorly implemented ones. Clicking on a link in an RSS feed post and having it land on a page, only to have it smothered in an HTML layer or \u2014 in the following case \u2014 promptly redirected to “Pay up, buddy!” sites is frustrating at best. I’ll gladly debate the efficacy of paywalls vs other means of generating revenue in another post (or even in the comments, if civil). I primarily wanted to write this post to both show the silliness of the implementation of Foster’s Daily Democrat’s paywall and point out a serious deficiency in Chrome.<\/p>\n

First up, lame paywall. You get three free direct story link visits prior to be asked to register and eventually pay for content. NOTE: You could just be going to the same story three times (say, after a browser crash) and each counts as a visit. After those visits, you have to register and give up what little anonymity you have on the Internet to be able to view up to an additional ten free direct story links before then being forced to pay up. If you are a print subscriber, you do get access for “free”, but there’s that tracking thing again. Foster’s uses a service called Clickshare<\/span> to handle the subscription and tracking. Just how many places do you need to have your data stored\/tracked just to read a (most likely) mediocre piece of news?<\/p>\n

The paywall setup is accomplished by a simple “Meta Refresh” tag. In its most basic form, it is an instruction that tells the browser to load a particular URL after a certain amount of time. In the case of Foster’s paywall, the HTML tag\/directive looks like this:<\/p>\n

[code lang=”html”]<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=https:\/\/home.fosters.com\/clickshare\/authenticateUserSubscription.do?CSAuthReq=1&CSTargetURL=\u2026"\/>[\/code]<\/p>\n

It’s telling your browser to double-check with their Clickshare code immediately after teasing you with the article content. And, it’s easy to circumvent. Mostly. The problem is, I’m a Chrome user 99% of the time and Google has not seen fit to allow control over the meta refresh directive. To jump the paywall, you’ll need to fire up Firefox. And enter “about:config<\/code>” in the location bar (and click through the warning message).<\/p>\n

Once there, filter for “refresh”, find the setting for “blockautorefresh<\/code>” and set it to “true<\/code>“.<\/p>\n

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Now, every time you visit a web site that attempts to auto-refresh full browser pages, you’ll see a warning (with the option to allow the action):<\/p>\n

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Why Chrome has not implemented a way to control this is beyond me. Since Safari also has no ability to control this setting, it may have something to do with the webkit core that both browsers are based on.<\/p>\n

This doesn’t stop the frustration with the RSS-click-to-read and it doesn’t help iOS\/Android users, but it does provide a means help keep a bit of anonymity (if you also use other extensions and controls) and should force these sites to kick their paywall game up a notch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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