What browser do you use?oskidunker said:
Unable to read any stories in the Mercury news. Keep getting a message I have reached my monthly allotment. I haven't been able to read anything since November
Someone posted a way to bypass. Could you post again?
On a Mac?oskidunker said:
Safari
Callisto said:
The Mercury News site tracks how many free articles you've read through cookies that it stores on your hard drive. I use Brave browser on Linux & Windows and Script Blocker for Chrome, which has a button that can disable all cookies on a website. That functionality allows me to get around the Mercury News cookies and read their content.
Some quick research suggests that there aren't a lot of script/cookie blockers for Safari on Mac, but you could try out Ghostery Lite and see if that helps. Otherwise, the way to fix it would be to go into your Settings/Preferences and delete any cookies for the mercurynews.com site and then try to read the site.
Too truebearister said:I'm thinking 30 years ago you would have been a cable pirate watching free HBO.Callisto said:
The Mercury News site tracks how many free articles you've read through cookies that it stores on your hard drive. I use Brave browser on Linux & Windows and Script Blocker for Chrome, which has a button that can disable all cookies on a website. That functionality allows me to get around the Mercury News cookies and read their content.
Some quick research suggests that there aren't a lot of script/cookie blockers for Safari on Mac, but you could try out Ghostery Lite and see if that helps. Otherwise, the way to fix it would be to go into your Settings/Preferences and delete any cookies for the mercurynews.com site and then try to read the site.
do you have an ad blocker on?oskidunker said:
Clearing cookies does not work anymore.ghost lite not available for i pad. Oh well I guess I get enough info here.
