How to Bypass the Herald Sun’s Paywall

Note: This is an old article, and this method no longer works.

It’s pretty simple to circumvent. Just change the hostname in the URL from “heraldsun.com.au” to “news.com.au” (or any other News Limited publication that doesn’t paywall their content) and load the page. The reason for this (as I mentioned before) is that all of these publications run on the same instance of the same content management system.

So, instead of this:

You’ll see this:

…or you could just clear your cookies. That works too.


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4 responses to “How to Bypass the Herald Sun’s Paywall”

  1. jason phillips

    Thank you!

  2. Mark

    Stopped working 15/09/15

    1. Lim

      Outdated and not working but google still ranked this article.

      1. Russell Phillips

        I put a disclaimer at the top. I’m only a decade late.

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