Author Topic: The Age online (Read 6280 times)

Bird · « **on:** August 26, 2013, 12:57:21 PM »

Anyone read it, cause... I dont anymore. They want you to pay! In their rectum they may insert.

GeeTee · « **Reply #1 on:** August 26, 2013, 01:14:05 PM »

People always bought papers and magazines therefore and in many regards, the innanet shouldn't be any different

But hey there's plenty of free information out there for you on the innanet. And you get what you pay for, eh?

ddr · « **Reply #2 on:** August 26, 2013, 01:18:02 PM »

Use Firefox "Private Windows" function. All the pages come up as normal.

Bird · « **Reply #3 on:** August 26, 2013, 01:21:14 PM »

Quote from: GeeTee

People always bought papers and magazines therefore and in many regards, the innanet shouldn't be any different

I never used to pay for that either

With the amount of advertising they have online, their profit margin would be double the old paper gig!...

Love you dan... always the solutions person

Mobi · « **Reply #4 on:** August 26, 2013, 01:24:43 PM »

Quote from: ddr on August 26, 2013, 01:18:02 PM

Use Firefox "Private Windows" function. All the pages come up as normal.

Bit hard when you are using the app

BigJules · « **Reply #5 on:** August 26, 2013, 01:26:45 PM »

I switched to Chrome a while back, but use Firefox to read the smh/Age without having to pay. Annoying through as I used to read a lot on my iPhone as well.

rossm · « **Reply #6 on:** August 26, 2013, 01:34:05 PM »

With the amount of advertising they have online, their profit margin would be double the old paper gig!.

rossm · « **Reply #7 on:** August 26, 2013, 01:40:52 PM »

With the amount of advertising they have online, their profit margin would be double the old paper gig!.
Trouble is the on line ads don't generate much revenue, jus look at the Fairfax result announced last week.

It easy to take potshots at business you may or may not like but when the go down people lose jobs, I am one of them.

achjimmy · « **Reply #8 on:** August 26, 2013, 01:43:13 PM »

The prob for the papers is the advertising revenue online is a pittance of print advertising revenue.

I currently subscribe to the SMH which includes the Age, figure the journos need to be paid somehow and the fairfax group are reasonably middle of the road compared to Murdoch and the ABC.

I think if online news was never free we wouldn't bitch, but we've had it good for so long. You can try ninemsn but its a bit ligth IMO.

Bird · « **Reply #9 on:** August 26, 2013, 01:44:19 PM »

Quote from: achjimmy

I think if online news was never free we wouldn't bitch, but we've had it good for so long. You can try ninemsn but its a bit ligth IMO.

I have zero interest in politics, so its hard to find anyone that has REAL news..

BigJules · « **Reply #10 on:** August 26, 2013, 01:58:27 PM »

I should add that I would pay but the cost seems steep for a digital version. I agree that Fairfax and the others need to make money, need to employ journos and more.

Terry W4 · « **Reply #11 on:** August 26, 2013, 05:18:22 PM »

Lost I get hissed off with it as well but what I do is switch to the SMH until the month is over and then return to the Age. Same stories mostly except not to many Bomber drug abuse ones.

Quote from: Lost on August 26, 2013, 12:57:21 PM

Anyone read it, cause... I dont anymore. They want you to pay! In their rectum they may insert.

swanny · « **Reply #12 on:** August 26, 2013, 05:23:27 PM »

Chits me too, and more important it now has foxsports on the net doing it also PITA I reckon, and be buggered if im paying.....!!!!!

Swanny

doc evil · « **Reply #13 on:** August 26, 2013, 06:16:22 PM »

Yep, same here with "the west".
Seems they want money for jam or double dip so to speak.
I'd pay to have just news sport etc, no ads. Instead, you get ads paying or not.
So, they get coin from advertisers, sponsors and the like, and expect us to pay for that privilege. I for one ain't payin for ads..................

JCAT · « **Reply #14 on:** August 26, 2013, 06:28:09 PM »

I had it on the iPad for free for around 18 months and then one day they want $21 a month. So I now read the Herald Sun for $7.99 a month.

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Swannie · « **Reply #15 on:** August 26, 2013, 06:36:05 PM »

I use an app called "flipboard" and then set up it up with the content I want to read..its also free. You can get latest news, etc

Swannie

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kiva · « **Reply #16 on:** August 26, 2013, 08:37:42 PM »

SMH is the same. All you need to do is block cookies for smh.com.au. The same would be true of The Age. No more limits on how many articles you can read.

Benduro · « **Reply #17 on:** August 26, 2013, 09:17:57 PM »

JCAT,

You can't call looking at the pictures reading! The Herald Sun does not contain enough words for it to constitute reading

Brumbypt · « **Reply #18 on:** August 26, 2013, 09:30:30 PM »

I brought my 80 series from the age advert online 14 years ago..

Carry on...

JCAT · « **Reply #19 on:** August 27, 2013, 06:12:09 PM »

Benduro,

it's got all the AFL news I need. Always read the paper starting at the back anyway.

Benduro · « **Reply #20 on:** August 27, 2013, 10:01:17 PM »

Haha, exactly the way I read the paper

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Author Topic: The Age online (Read 6280 times)