Bloomberg instituted a pay wall today

[gfp]

Bloomberg.com has a redesign and put in a pay wall after 10 articles starting today:

 

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-02/editor-in-chief-john-mickelthwait-on-new-bloomberg-redesign

[fareastwarriors]

Darn! That's really too bad. Bloomberg was one of my last few sources for good business news after WSJ toughened up their wall.

[Uccmal]

That sucks.  Michael Bloomberg not making enough money? 

[gokou3]

Darn! That's really too bad. Bloomberg was one of my last few sources for good business news after WSJ toughened up their wall.

You can break the WSJ paywall with

 

http://archive.is

[alpha]

 

They even removed their live youtube channel and replaced it with a paywalled video site.

 

They also recently took over the Canadian BNN channel, which was a good source for Canadian business news.

[gfp]

Thats kind of like saying, "What!  Omaha World Herald site has a pay-wall?  Isn't Berkshire Hathaway making enough money?"

 

That sucks.  Michael Bloomberg not making enough money?

[merkhet]

Bloomberg needs to fill the coffers for 2020 :P

[TorontoRaptorsFan]

$35- a month for a subscription is out to lunch.

 

I'll just wait to read the weekly issue using my Texture app.

[Liberty]

From free to almost $550 CAD/year  :P

 

Let's see if they have pricing power...

[rb]

LOL, i think you can bypass the whole paywall if you just go right click->open in new private window.

[John Hjorth]

LOL, i think you can bypass the whole paywall if you just go right click->open in new private window.

 

Awesome finding, rb! I will try it going forward. Thank you for sharing.

[rb]

It works for most paywalls that allow you a number of free articles.

[CorpRaider]

Yeah kind of bummed.  Might replace FT with it next year if I find I'm hitting the limit a lot.  Also, might pay if they stepped up the TV product.