Reg Link Handling?

August 3, 2005 6:41 AM

Regarding my CommonTimes post: Here's a question for all you seasoned MeFi NewsFilter veterans. So many news sources require bogus, worthless, annoying "registration", imagining that they're harvesting tons of valuable marketing information. Bugmenot comes in handy, but I hate to post links to CommonTimes which lead readers to a reg-gate. I'm aware of the NY Times Link Generator which does an end-around of the reg gateway. And BugMeNot sure comes in handy. I'm also tagging with "reglink" where appropriate. Any other suggestions for dealing with reg-required links?
posted by hybernaut to Computers & Internet (4 answers total)

going through the Google news page lets me through some articles that BugMeNot can't foil. That said, it's not a solution that will scale well (or last more than a few days).
posted by Tuwa at 7:02 AM on August 3, 2005

Response by poster: Good suggestion, thanks.
I tend to browse headlines via my RSS reader, open interesting articles in my browser, and post to CommonTimes with the bookmarklet.

I wonder if the ReBlog guys have any solutions to this problem.
posted by hybernaut at 8:00 AM on August 3, 2005

Googling the first sentence of the article will often lead one to registration free reprints in other papers.
posted by y2karl at 9:41 AM on August 3, 2005

For example: For the Swiss heirs of Carl Gustav Jung, the problems with an acclaimed new American biography begin with the first sentence...
posted by y2karl at 9:45 AM on August 3, 2005