The BBC’s monopoly of online News looks to be growing ever bigger as the Telegraph puts up a paywall…….via Guido:
Digital First Telegraph Go Behind Semi-Paywall
Non-subscribers will now be limited to just 20 free articles a month as the new “Digital First” Telegraph goes behind a paywall. It seems to be an FT-style half-and-half-measure. If you want to carry on reading you will have to fork out £2-a-month, or a tenner on tablet.
Sadly, The Telegraph will be no great loss. The online version is run by imbeciles who were once told that plastering ‘the ten best xyz’ on every front page to force readers to click over the pages will improve their search engine rankings. Never mind trying an attractive layout and good stories.
The paper is also riddled with tiresome Trots who, prior to the Barclay brothers takeover, wouldn’t have been allowed through the door.
You do get the occasional sensible writer there but generally speaking, the news is limited and the comment too often banal.
More broadly, yes – the BBC’s hegemony is frightening. And no accident!
You’re so right. I have called the DT “The Labourgraph” for years (mainly in response to ‘Torygraph’ taunts when the opposite was so clear) apart from a few stalwarts it is trashy.
Agree.
However, I see much of it as rabble rousing rather than being pro Labour per se. I’ve lost count of the number of vacuous North v South, England v Scotland etc articles which are designed to generate more heat than light.
There is usually a way around this type of paywall.
First block the site from setting up cookies.
Then, since the relevant ones can still get through, when you find you’ve reached the limit, view your cookies on that browser and delete all that have ‘telegraph’ on them. Close your browser and restart, it should allow you to start viewing articles anew.
If you have several browsers you can also select a different one each time you reach the limit.
Well stated Teddy Bear … You also forgot about the use of a `proxy` site to view as well…. Mozilla is the best browser to use as thier filters do not directly download a webpage unlike IE which does… This makes it harder to get round the cookies that websites use, and the proxy sites will make it impossible for sites to use the origin of your ip address in this regard as well…. But let`s face it… a simple google will provide outside linkage to the content in the DT pages due to the nature of the Tabloid press and thier collective hubs from which they all get thier information…… Not only that but there are many websites which will simply paste thier content anyway…. This is what these papers do not realise and I am smiling right now in the knowledge that whilst they are anticipating a huge windfall in cash from online subscription there are others who are doing the exact thing which I have just decribed… Hopefully this will result in the loss of the entire budget spent by them on this project and perhaps result in liquidation or at least the sackings of thier online politically correct leftist agendist staff who act like fascists towards any other viewpoint but thier own narrow self serving interests…
The “proxy” solution no longer works for me.
However, if anyone uses Safari, apparently you can get in.
I use Chrome, and if you open Telegraph articles using the “open link in incognito window” option, you by pass the paywall as it is at the moment. Whether or not they can tighten up on this remains to be seen.
‘if anyone uses Safari, apparently you can get in.’
Woo-hoo! At last a plus to having an old Mac (Firefox & Chrome no longer support my OS).
The other nice thing is the ‘Mail Contents Of This Page’ feature, which has proven most useful when dealing with a ‘We’ve looked and it doesn’t say (now) what you say it did (then)’ CECUTT drone.
Old Goat …….. Would you care to elaborate as to why the proxy situation doesn`t work for you anymore??? Perhaps I might be able to find you a solution which will help you out… BTW using google chrome is as bad if not worse than using IE … whether or not you switch on the “incognito” facility will not alter the fact that your entire browsing data is being collected by google for them to use at thier discretion and without informing you about it…. Google chrome is a browser that relies on marketing your data to its` affiliatesso that it can be used by whoever pays for it to either target you with online suggestions (spam in your browser in realtime) or for market research for the purposes of spamming you at a later date once the required software has been coded for them to ruin your internets at a later date…. The reason chyrome and IE seem so much faster than firefox is as I said before, down to them both downlaoding your webpage requests directly to your pc or laptop etc…. This kind of programming puts all users at risk from rogue coding and malicious webhacks…. Firefox pages are served via thier filters and thier add ons and browser applications have a vast array of tools to keep you safe… You just need to use the right ones and also learn to have patience and be willing to wait the extra second or two for each page to come up when you are browsing….. As for your proxy problem, if it is not working for you then it is a safe bet that the problem is an embedded cookie restore code hidden in your registry settings… Did you by any chance use the browser choice facility offered by Microsoft?? If you did then that is quikte common and recently more and more people are falling foul of it… Remember that microsoft only offer something for free if it will benefit themsleves or thier affiliates….. Also make sure you install a cache cleaner app like ccleaner to make sure your Ram also wipes its history when you close the browser too, and never rely on one company to provide your security….
Hmmm…the plot thickens 😉
I agree with what you say about Microsoft. Apple too seems to be following in the same footsteps.
Teddy Bear… apart from my ISP bills my only costs have been for buying hardware components for my PC… Apart from that I have never ever paid for anything else, this includes my software, my music and also my movies…. If I find something I feel is worth paying for I will go and buy a retail copy… I still buy Albums and DVDs… but I buy them as a collector, not becouse of what it says on the description or becouse the trailer looked good…. It isn`t cheap in the UK for a DVD or a CD and prior to the internet I had been suckered too many times…. The only DVDS I am willing to pay for are ones that I know I will watch and be able to go back to and enjoy again…. I don`t use online streaming sites like netflix or itunes etc……. I will never buy an apple product as like Sony thier DRM activities are based on rippin g people off… Why buy an album on itunes if you can only use it on thier terms and also why should it have a clause enabling them to place a timeframe on your usage of it?? I have a mo0bile phone, it is from about 8 years ago and I use it for making a phonecall if I am out… I have a digital camera which I use to take pictures when I want to.. I have an mp3 player for listening to music if I am out and want something to listen to on a bus apart from the gobby chavs sat behind me…. If I want to remember a phone number or something important like an appoinment I use a post-it and burn it afterwards… I do not need or want the latest all in gadget that alerts the nearest smackhead to the fact that I possess a £300 phone and the abilty to provide the next bag of smack….. Also what happens if you lose your gadget??? Jailbreak software is easy to get hold of and people don`1 realise that the data on their £300 phone is also worth stealing as well…. If I want to use digital media and stuff I would rather do it in safety and also without having to watch my back… Apple are just as greedy iif not worse than Microsoft…. Don`t forget thier OS has been deliberately configured to gain a market share of subscription based markets… That is why people hyave to use thier itunes webshit just to edit thier playlists….
I must admit I do like all the apps I use on my iPhone. Without a doubt it’s an incredible tool. What I really didn’t like though is when Apple put out the IO6 update which got rid of Google maps. Made all the golf range finder apps I had been using useless. 👿
Thanks Old Goat 🙂
I usually click on my middle mouse dial to get a separate tab when opening a webpage. Though I’ve seen recently it doesn’t do it for Telegraph articles.
I never noticed the ‘open link in incognito window’ before. I see it has that option in Chrome but not in Firefox.
I’ll definitely try this from now on.
Thanks Justin.
I’d like to say I ‘forgot’, what you state about proxy sites, but actually didn’t know. Makes sense though.
Good suggestion about Google too 🙂
Works for me with Firefox.
I think things like “CrapCleaner” do pretty much the same thing.
I run it once a day to get rid of anything that might be boring itself silly by tracking my porn site movement 😉
Chop …. be careful using Java on the porn sites…. Recently expoits have been found in the Java programming… It is usually on porn sites that remote xploit browser hacks happen the most, as those who are behind the hacking rely on the viewers lack of concentration and self awareness when they are `knocking one out` remember that on a pornsite the concept of security means doing something more than just putting a chair underneath the door handle or slipping on a rubber to avoid leaving any evidence that you have been switching tabs late at night…..
friday night just gone,,radio 4,,8pm,,any questions from kent,,,.what a discrace comrades….never mind rentamob,,it was more like a lynch mob for anybody with conservative views,,,the howls and the psychotic screaming by this majority planted far left mob in the audience must of been worrying for the conservative guests on the panel…go listen to bbc iplayer if you dont believe me,,,next week comrades,,have a guess who is on the panel…oh yes,,the far lefts most hated figure peter hitchens,,,best he gets a few bodyguards in to protect him from the far left baying mob on any questions,,,goog luck peter hitchens,,,you will need it mate…………..
Not Kent: Cha’um. Home of whatever flotsam gets washed out of London on the ebb tide to fetch up in the Medway Estuary.
dont forget,clocks go forward 1 hour tonight for british summertime,for socalists,clocks go back 1 hour so they can have an extra hours sleep.
I will not be paying for content behind a paywall thank you very much, the internet is free and open or GTFO. Ill give the woodpulp press 10 years at the most, paywalls will not save them. You cant blame the BBBC for this, even tho it’s biased it is free and just needs a neurological filter to get the facts.
‘..even tho it’s biased it is free’
A few the wrong side of the magistrate’s bench may dispute that, but see your overall point.
Even worse than the BBC’s growing domination of news on the internet is it’s almost total monopoly of news and current affairs on radio. Their unique form of imposing a legally enforceable tax to fund it’s operations, especially when it come to nationwide broadcasts, means they are, due the fact that lengthy outputs of news and current affairs do not lend themselves to commercial broadcasting, the only organisation who can fund such loss making programmes due to not having to make them break even, never mind make a profit to stay in existence.
That is the reason the Radio 4 Today and PM current affairs programmes go out during the morning and evening rush hours when people are travelling and, especially those in cars, only have radio for live news broadcasts. The same concept applies in the early morning when people are busy preparing to go to work and sitting watching TV is not really an option whereas a radio in the background is.
It really is time something was done to create an alternative output to the BBC’s strangle hold on in depth radio news coverage especially in view of their tendency to use that power as a propaganda tool to push their own biased agenda.
‘almost total monopoly of news and current affairs on radio’
It has been noted, and interestingly by a few high profile BBC staff (if in the ‘wrong’ camp), that radio appears to be getting the lion’s share of market rate padding under Lord Hall Hall’s new regime.
Strongly agree. The case for breaking up of such a strong monopoly position is overwhelming. If the BBC were a commercial organisation you can be 100% certain that the liberal left would be demanding that it be broken up. I can see no argument against that view in regard of the BBC.
To have one body in control of such a high percentage of the news and current affairs broadcasting of a country is much closer to the arrangement that used to pertain in a Stalinist dictatorship than in a free democratic country. Surely by their own philosophy the liberal left must agree that for a healthy society we need a range of views that reflect all the strands of thought in the country and that from this people make up their own minds. If you do not accept this view then you are in reality saying that the people who control the media decide what the rest of the people should think.
Now we all know that the BBC is extremely biased in favour of their interests that the liberal left ruling elite would never willingly allow the loss of the BBC monopoly. But surely even the most bone headed Tory must see that this is a wholely untenable position in a democratic society and one which , with skill, can be exploited.
They should realise that the presence of the BBC loads the dice overwhelmingly against any right of centre reform of the country.
Basically by not tackling the BBC the Tories are abandoning the country to continued rule by the liberal left and eventually to the UK becoming a poor , overcrowded, backwater on the edge of Europe, riven by inter cultural strife and without any social cohesion.
The Beeb has an unbreakable monopoly short of revolution as it controls the news if not quite the news agenda.
its almost total monopoly of news
and current affairs on radio
Agree entirely. When they’re on strike there is no news programme to listen to when driving to and from work. That cannot be right.
The phrase “British newspaper” is a tautology. If it’s British it can’t be, and if it’s a real newspaper it certainly is not native to these islands. What we have here is a form of bias, pioneered by al-beeb, so the public ends up with a variety of spewings that can be called publications, red-tops, magazines for entertainment and sports, opinion rags like the Economist, etc. and a species of shallow, sensationalist, money making ink stained splotches of tabloid toilet paper. Newspapers? Not in our country!
‘you want to carry on reading you will have to fork out £2-a-month, or a tenner on tablet.’
Shows what great value the licence fee is!
How about addressing the point made by Doublethinker
“If the BBC were a commercial organisation you can be 100% certain that the liberal left would be demanding that it be broken up.”
Yep at over 12 quid it’s a bargain well if your a dim wit who thinks wall to wall repeats and talent shows is a great way to spend money !
Whta the ‘liberal left’ call for is up to them. Not related to the BBC.
You can call them whatever you like. How about addressing the point?
In the Uk we already pay the highest fees for internet as it is…. I think that such a high cost can only be justified if ISPs start refusing access to sites demanding further payments on top of it all…. It`s no wonder that piracy and hacking is on the increase, people are sick off the payouts constantly… I am waiting for the BBC to start demanding online fees too on thier other services apart from iplayer…. What`s the betting that whilst we are expected to cough up, not one non TV license fee paying user will do the same… The BBC already provide overseas services to the detriment of the UK public right now…. They even employ foriegn admins on most of thier services based outside the UK, this is why any UK users who comment on the middle east news sites etc. usually find themselves being kick/banned if they “offend” or do not agree with the sentiments of the BBC and thier army of rabid anti British online bigots….
The Grauniad gives the game away … news organisations need to work out what their core product is, and how to make it so attractive that people want to pay. News isn’t entirely a commodity, but it almost is. What’s the core, though? The point of view? Presentation?
But still no-one in the print media seems to challenge why the bBBC gets its output paid for by compulsory taxation whilst every other medium has to make their stuff pay for itself somehow.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/9965870/Theft-and-sexual-assault-allegations-among-500-crimes-a-year-at-BBC.html
Good value for money for some! No further comment needed.