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Free Wall Street Journal access

The Wall Street Journal requires a subscription (and it's not cheap) to read the current days paper. While many articles are offered online in their entirety, if you are surfing for free you many times just get the first paragraph of the article... followed by a message to log in or by a subscription.

Well, turns out the Wall Street Journal has a bit of a hole in how they serve articles. When you get an article that requires a subscription to read, go up to the address bar in your browser and add the following to the front of the URL that is currently shown there:

http://mobile2.wsj.com/device/article.php?mid=&CALL_URL=

(um... ignore the fact that this is getting turned into a link)

So here's an example. You start out here:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122179636955155969.html

And you only see the first paragraph. You go up to the address bar in your browser and copy in the stuff from above so that the URL you are going to is now:

http://mobile2.wsj.com/device/article.php?mid=&CALL_URL=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122179636955155969.html

And ta-da... you get the entire article.

I don't know how long this hack will last. Seems like they'll close this hole at some point. But in the mean time you can read any article on the Wall Street Journal site for free!
Rating: 100% positive, 1 Vote
Categories: newspaper online hack free
Added: on Sep 19, 2008 at 10:06 am
Added By: an anonymous user

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