{"id":197,"date":"2013-05-26T10:39:38","date_gmt":"2013-05-26T00:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ubermotive.com\/?p=197"},"modified":"2025-11-29T08:10:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T22:10:32","slug":"how-to-bypass-the-herald-suns-paywall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ubermotive.com\/?p=197","title":{"rendered":"How to Bypass the Herald Sun&#8217;s Paywall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Note:<\/strong> This is an old article, and this method no longer works.<br \/><br \/>It&#8217;s pretty simple to circumvent. Just change the hostname in the URL from &#8220;heraldsun.com.au&#8221; to &#8220;news.com.au&#8221; (or any other News Limited publication that doesn&#8217;t paywall their content) and load the page. The reason for this (as I mentioned <a title=\"Micallef Has a Point\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ubermotive.com\/?p=163\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">before<\/a>) is that all of these publications run on the <em>same <\/em>instance of the <em>same <\/em>content management system<em>.<\/em><br \/><!--more--><br \/>So, instead of this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ubermotive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/news1_small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-198 size-full\" title=\"Herald Sun Paywall\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ubermotive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/news1_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ubermotive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/news1_small.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.ubermotive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/news1_small-300x228.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>You&#8217;ll see this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ubermotive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/news2_small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-199 size-full\" title=\"No paywalls here\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ubermotive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/news2_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ubermotive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/news2_small.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.ubermotive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/news2_small-300x228.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>&#8230;or you could just clear your cookies. That works too.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Note: This is an old article, and this method no longer works. It&#8217;s pretty simple to circumvent. Just change the hostname in the URL from &#8220;heraldsun.com.au&#8221; to &#8220;news.com.au&#8221; (or any other News Limited publication that doesn&#8217;t paywall their content) and load the page. The reason for this (as I mentioned before) is that all of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ubermotive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ubermotive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ubermotive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ubermotive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ubermotive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.ubermotive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":557,"href":"https:\/\/www.ubermotive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions\/557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ubermotive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ubermotive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ubermotive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}