The New York Post has had enough of you freeloading iOS users reading their website! Why, just because you can read it free online from your computer doesn’t mean you can do so from your iPad! That’s why they’ve now banned access to their website from Mobile Safari in order to push people to buy their iPad subcription. That’s right, if you try and hit their site from your iOS device using Safari, you get blocked and asked to buy the app. The stupidest part? Any other iOS browser is fine. As Staci Kramer from PaidContent points out:
Even better, apparently no one there noticed or cared that users of other iPad browsers like Skyfire and Opera Mini can slip right in. It is one of the most poorly conceived paywall efforts I’ve come across—and I’ve seen more than a few.
They expect you to fork out $6.99/month, $39.99/six months or $74.99/year, when you can get it free from your desktop, or another browser. This also kills any links that you try and click from their Facebook feed.
Oh man, without the New York Post, where will I get my bad pun headlines and salacious gossip? Oh, right, the internet.
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