The Wall Street Journal wants to that Google is a plugin that allows the betaalmuur on the website of the newspaper can be bypassed from its Chrome Web Store remove. The so-called Read WSJ-plugin gets its content from Googles cache.
Read WSJ, is already since the beginning of april in the Google Chrome Web Store and now has the attention of The Wall Street Journal. The newspaper says compared to Cnet that the contact has taken Google to the plug-in to remove. Read WSJ looking for copies of articles in Google’s web cache. If found, shows the plug-in a open slot in the link to the article. The link is hereby changed in Googles copy of the article.
It is not the first time that a paywall for a newspaper is simply bypassed. The betaalmuur of The New York Times revealed, for example, to overcome with the help of three lines of javascript. This was the overlay removed those readers to pay insisted.
The Wall Street Journal since december 2007 part of the media conglomerate News Corp. Founder and chairman Rupert Murdoch gave in 2009 that, in its opinion, must be paid for all the online content from his publications. A subscription to the online version of The Wall Street Journal cost two dollars per week. Or betaalmuren the declining process of converting newspapers can inhibit, is still the question: the British newspaper The Times saw two-thirds of the traffic to his website disappear after the introduction of a paywall.