OT: Ottawa Citizen now a pay site

[Samboni]

Just went to check on the Sens on the Citizen website. Says that i’ve read my 10 free complimentary pages for the month. Business must be hurtin!

Click to read more...

 

[BonHoonLayneCornell]

Eh. Not much interesting from them anyways.

 

[18Hossa]

It's been like that for a while now. It's taken you this long to read 10 articles?

 

[Six Assets]

twitter and HF is all you need

 

[Samboni]

It's been like that for a while now. It's taken you this long to read 10 articles?

I only read the hockey articles, and there hasn’t been a lot to read this summer.

 

[Samboni]

twitter and HF is all you need

The only social media I’m involved with are 2 forums. IMO, Twitter, FB, instagram, etc can consume your life if you let it, just look at kids these days.

 

[Six Assets]

The only social media I’m involved with are 2 forums. IMO, Twitter, FB, instagram, etc can consume your life if you let it, just look at kids these days.

I only follow hockey journalists on Twitter. Best way to be most up to date imo.

 

[Micklebot]

It's been like that for a while now. It's taken you this long to read 10 articles?

I don't know, I rarely go to the citizen online for my news, I probably haven't hit 10 of their articles either...

 

[Spartachat]

Not a big deal. I only went for the Bruce Garrioch articles anyways.

 

[BonHoonLayneCornell]

Can we really expect journalistic integrity out of them anyways with all the heavy handedness from the organization? Seems they've made it clear to fall in line and a local paper has little option but to oblige.

We have the threat to bury Brent Wallace

We have the airplane pass revoked situation for Warren (and others?)

We have Melnyk ripping Mendes publicly for somerhing as small as wanting PD to listen to an unappy fan

These incidents would no doubt affect what they would be willing to publish at this point.

 

[BonkTastic]

Citizen had been garbage since the 2015 merger with Sun Media.

Nothing of value has been lost.

 

[danielpalfredsson]

Right click.

Open in incognito window.

 

[Nac Mac Feegle]

Citizen had been garbage since the 2015 merger with Sun Media.

Nothing of value has been lost.

^This.

Anything attached to sun media isn't worth the seconds to read.

 

[stempniaksen]

This isn't new at all. I honestly feel like it's been that way for (at least) the last 2-3 years.

You can't expect people to pay for your paper when they can get the same info/articles for free on their website.

 

[harrisb]

Right click.

Open in incognito window.

Yup, they use cookies to count the number of articles (Sun is the same). Use incognito or private browsing and there is no cookie to read

 

[maclean]

Yup, they use cookies to count the number of articles (Sun is the same). Use incognito or private browsing and there is no cookie to read

All sites that only offer a certain number of free articles are the same. I only use those in incognito, but moreover these days if a page pops something like that or a complicated GDPR approval when I visit, I just hit that back button and find my information somewhere else

 

[CTC]

You can just clear your cookies as well, then you will have access again. Use to work I think, not sure if these types of sites have figured a workaround yet to a very easy bypass.

 

[Stylizer1]

All sites that only offer a certain number of free articles are the same. I only use those in incognito, but moreover these days if a page pops something like that or a complicated GDPR approval when I visit, I just hit that back button and find my information somewhere else

I find that sometimes you can also stop the page from finishing to load before the pop up comes on. It work sometimes.

 

[Tnuoc Alucard]

You can just clear your cookies as well, then you will have access again. Use to work I think, not sure if these types of sites have figured a workaround yet to a very easy bypass.

Works for me, have my browser set up to clear all cookies each time I close it down. Never been denied reading any articles.