Isn't the metered system as adopted by the Financial Times simple to circumvent? I simply open each article in an Incognito Window in Chrome and I can read as many articles as I want.
Just like with Adblock, if the most tech-savvy 2% find a way around it, it's not going to make a big difference to their bottom line. Even moreso here because a lot of those free riders would have just chosen not to read it if it required money.
Only way that will work is if you require everyone to make an account, which won't do wonders for traffic.
Maybe only showing the start of articles without an account would be the only way to prevent people getting around it. Seems useless to if you can just Google search an article and see it anyway.
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Isn't the metered system as adopted by the Financial Times simple to circumvent? I simply open each article in an Incognito Window in Chrome and I can read as many articles as I want.
If that is how it works out, they don't care.
Just like with Adblock, if the most tech-savvy 2% find a way around it, it's not going to make a big difference to their bottom line. Even moreso here because a lot of those free riders would have just chosen not to read it if it required money.
They could make it much more secure by requiring an account (which NY Times already does).
Only way that will work is if you require everyone to make an account, which won't do wonders for traffic. Maybe only showing the start of articles without an account would be the only way to prevent people getting around it. Seems useless to if you can just Google search an article and see it anyway.
Yep, but then the articles would not viewable for "free" anymore thus cutting off a huge number of potential readers.