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BreakthePaywall

  1. BTPW works with Barrons online - offshoot of WSJ. barrons.com 2:35 AM Apr 2nd via web
  2. BTPW works with the Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel: jsonline.com 4:35 AM Jan 6th via web
  3. BreakthePaywall works with the Scottish Herald: heraldscotland.com 5:33 AM Dec 8th, 2011 via web
  4. BreakthePaywall 1.3.1 bug fix release now available - this mainly addresses a bug that caused desktop shortcuts to slow down IE. 7:32 AM Dec 1st, 2011 via web
  5. BreakthePaywall works with StarTribune.com 1:04 AM Nov 2nd, 2011 via web
  6. BreakthePaywall works with The Australian newspaper which launched a freemium style paywall site this morning. 7:16 AM Oct 24th, 2011 via web
  7. If you have BTPW it should prompt to update next time you use it. If you installed V1.2.0 visit breakthepaywall.com to install manually. 2:22 AM Oct 13th, 2011 via web
  8. V1.3.0 of Breakthepaywall released. Solves MS August update which changed cookie storage method. Added Flash and HTML5 cookie deletion. 2:21 AM Oct 13th, 2011 via web
  9. Next release of BreakthePaywall delayed - MS changed cookie storage method on 9th August which means not all cookies are being deleted. 3:43 AM Sep 16th, 2011 via web
  10. New version with flash cookie deletion is imminent. HTML5 cookie deletion may be added as well but certainly in next version. 1:59 AM Aug 17th, 2011 via web
  11. Breakthepaywall works with MediaNews Group publications. 1:58 AM Aug 17th, 2011 via web
  12. Flash cookie deletion for BreakthePaywall coming soon - next version will incorporate flash cookie deletion and IE9 support. 1:28 AM May 14th, 2011 via web
  13. BreakthePaywall now has a version for IE9 available to download from the website - beta only (uninstall old versions first). 1:27 AM May 14th, 2011 via web
  14. To block Tulsaworld flash cookie: Website Storage Settings panel in flash settings, select tulsaworld.com and tick Never ask again 3:49 AM Apr 5th, 2011 via web
  15. Tulsaworld.com is using flash cookies to protect paywall - this means war! 2:59 AM Apr 5th, 2011 via web
  16. As anticipated BreakthePaywall works on the New York Times paywall website! 12:43 PM Mar 28th, 2011 via Twitter for iPhone
  17. New York Times already jittery about social media links. You would think they thought about this already! $50m! http://on.mash.to/gb9yL2 7:29 AM Mar 23rd, 2011 via web
  18. http://www.niemanlab.org/2011/03/that-was-quick-four-lines-of-code-is-all-it-takes-for-the-new-york-times-paywall-to-come-tumbling-down-2/ 7:27 AM Mar 23rd, 2011 via web
  19. Pointers towards the NYT paywall: http://blogs.forbes.com/jeffbercovici/2010/12/07/ny-times-exec-you-wont-be-able-to-fool-our-paywall/ 3:54 AM Dec 8th, 2010 via web
  20. You can now use: http://wikileaks.breakthepaywall.com #imwikileaks 5:29 AM Dec 6th, 2010 via web