I usually use referrer control to spoof my referring link to news.google.com.<p>But, it stopped working today for some reason. I block cookies from WSJ so that's not the reason.<p>It doesn't allow me to read anything but shows me the sign in/ subscribe page.
WSJ are testing closing the loophole to see if it improves their subscription rates: <a href="http://digiday.com/publishers/wall-street-journal-paywall-google/" rel="nofollow">http://digiday.com/publishers/wall-street-journal-paywall-go...</a><p>> A Journal spokesperson said the publisher was running a test to see if doing so would entice would-be subscribers to pay up. The rep wouldn’t elaborate on how long and extensive the experiment was and if permanently closing the loophole was a possible outcome.
I've noticed the same thing. I guess that they've stopped using cookies and are using some kind of "super cookie" that uses the visitors computer environment to create a individual id.