I am not a fan of paywalls and I believe that the internet has much more information than anybody can claim. It is also true that in the pages of African newspapers are just copy-paste articles from Reuters, AP, NYT, BBC, AFP, Xinhua and CNN. Very small percentage of the stories you get in your Daily Nation, The Star, Standard or People are original materials. It is in that regard that when I get an opportunity to not pay for the newspaper, I grab it. Why should I pay for a Daily Nation article copied from BBC website while BBC dont charge me?
Daily Nation has a paywall. That is you want to read any material already archived on nation.co.ke, you will have to pay a fee to get it. The same with reading the full newspaper through Pressmart. Daily Nation uses Pressmart to increase readership to those in the diaspora and beyond. Before Pressmart, they were using Newsstand. By midnight East African time, the paper is mostly out of the press. So I use my tricks to read the paper for free.
And here is how to read the paper for free;
- DON’T register onto http://dn.nationmedia.com just use the link in 2. below
- Just copy and paste this url onto your address bar
- Voila! You can now read any edition of Daily, Saturday or Sunday Nation online from wherever.
To zoom on a story, just hold the CTRL button down and use the scroll button on your keyboard
UPDATE: Nation has rectified the problem and now the link loops back to the registration page. We are looking for other holes. Share below if you got any.
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17 Comments
I have no idea how you did it, but… Respect! Thanks for the go-around
Thanks OnlineKenyan. We must find ways of dealing with online exploitation
I have no idea how you did it, but… Respect! Thanks for the go-around
Thanks OnlineKenyan. We must find ways of dealing with online exploitation
Hey,jus tried it,but seemz theyve discovered this particular trick.it aint working
your trick is not working
loops back to registration page
Hey,jus tried it,but seemz theyve discovered this particular trick.it aint working
your trick is not working
loops back to registration page
school yard bullying brought online. Very sad.
school yard bullying brought online. Very sad.
Its not working dude. What will i do now ?
Its not working dude. What will i do now ?
pay for online edition and read
pay for online edition and read
useless idiot!! we have been using this for years, you post it on your website and boom!! the link dies…
useless idiot!! we have been using this for years, you post it on your website and boom!! the link dies…
DUDE. WTF. You post holes they get fixed, Let those who know …. the rest pay or spend some time getting ur own shimos .. it’s way too easy
DUDE. WTF. You post holes they get fixed, Let those who know …. the rest pay or spend some time getting ur own shimos .. it’s way too easy
Awesome…they took so long to detect this.
Awesome…they took so long to detect this.
nkt, not working…still have to sign in.
nkt, not working…still have to sign in.
It took me a minute to get the newspaper.
the first page for saturday
second
third
for friday
just change the days on the link
*a/*b/*c/page/*d_*e_*f_*g.JPG
*a – is the year
*b – is the month
*c – is the day of the month
*d – should be the same as *c
*e – should be the same as *b
*f – should be the same as *a
*g – change accordingly with the pages you want.
With a download manager you can easily get all the papers they have online
It took me a minute to get the newspaper.
the first page for saturday
second
third
for friday
just change the days on the link
*a/*b/*c/page/*d_*e_*f_*g.JPG
*a – is the year
*b – is the month
*c – is the day of the month
*d – should be the same as *c
*e – should be the same as *b
*f – should be the same as *a
*g – change accordingly with the pages you want.
With a download manager you can easily get all the papers they have online
Just email me on kkihuria@live.com we talk ill show you how to get the whole paper
Just email me on kkihuria@live.com we talk ill show you how to get the whole paper
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