time.com's pages have some problems too.

[darkoshi]

The subscription page had a minor problem after I mistakenly entered my last name in the email field. After getting the edit message and correcting my entry, the Submit button didn't show up anymore. But refreshing the page and reentering my data fixed that.

The "Thank you for subscribing" page includes links for creating an account or logging into one. Neither works; they display an "Oops... Looks like we can't find what you're looking for" message. I imagine that is because the site no longer has content which requires a login. So that can be ignored.

They emailed me a link to the digital version of their print magazine. That's nice but I probably won't access it often. I opened it though to see what it is like. It displays one page in the browser at a time. There's a zoom button, but clicking it makes the page display smaller instead of bigger. The browser's zoom function doesn't work on the page. So I wouldn't find it easy to read anyway, unless I used the Windows magnifier tool to enlarge it. That isn't Time's fault though, as the digital magazine is hosted on a different site, emagazines.com.

Let's see. Using the site's Mobile View option provides easier-to-read pages with larger text, and that way the browser's zoom works ok too. But Firefox doesn't display the Forward (>) buttons sometimes, making it impossible to navigate right in the Mobile View. It works ok in Edge.

Hmmm. I've been contemplating again switching to Linux, if I ever find the time. How many different browser options are there on Linux?
Oh cool, Firefox, Edge and Chrome are all available for Linux too:
https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/2/22759123/microsoft-edge-linux-stable-channel

Comments

[mellowtigger]

I can often find viewable news links at archive.org, but not always. Even when successful, sometimes it requires several minutes of hunting for a link that works instead of just being another archived view of the paywall.

I keep Firefox (my default), Chrome, and Opera up to date on my Linux Mint computer.

[darkoshi]

Most paywalls I come across can be bypassed just by disabling Javascript on the page. When not, and if I really want to read it, I usually do a web search on the title and sometimes find a similar article on a different site. I don't usually think to check archive.org for those kind of articles (I ought to remember to do so) but I do often look there when the original page is no longer available.

On archive.org, other than plugging the original article URL into the Wayback Machine box, how do you search for articles? Do you plug the title into the regular Search box? Or use the Advanced Search?

I am glad there are multiple browsers available for Linux, as it is always good to have others for backup when a site doesn't work right in one.

[mellowtigger]

Yes, I always search by entering the url I'm trying to find. When it produces the timeline of available backups, I right-click and open a lot of them in different browsers. Many are often saves of 404 errors (usually the later ones) or paywall text, but somebody sometime manages to archive the full text, so I use that one and close the other tabs.

[darkoshi]

That is good to know, thanks