Break subscribtion only areas with user agen switcher

Ocassionally you may come across a site on google, click the link to read the article and be presented with a log in page. To register for just one article is too much hassle.

Load up firefox and goto http://chrispederick.com/work/useragentswitcher/ and download the useragent extension, restart firefox.

Now go to Tools -> User Agent Switcher -> Options -> Options

Click user agents, then add, put whatever you want in the description to remind you of which user agent it is for this example googlebot, now copy and paste this into the user agent box: Googlebot/1.0 (
<!–
var prefix = ‘ma’ + ‘il’ + ‘to’;
var path = ‘hr’ + ‘ef’ + ‘=’;
var addy97106 = ‘googlebot’ + ‘@’;
addy97106 = addy97106 + ‘googlebot’ + ‘.’ + ‘com’;
document.write( ‘<a ‘ + path + ‘\” + prefix + ‘:’ + addy97106 + ‘\’>’ );
document.write( addy97106 );
document.write( ‘<\/a>’ );
//–>\n googlebot@googlebot.com
<!–
document.write( ‘<span style=\’display: none;\’>’ );
//–>
This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
<!–
document.write( ‘</’ );
document.write( ’span>’ );
//–>
http://googlebot.com/) Leave the rest blank. Click ok.

Now visit the site again, click tools -> user agent switcher -> googlebot. Hit refresh. Now you should be viewing the full article

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