Loot's gone bust?

EarthBoy

eskbanker wrote: »

FYI, there is a simple workaround for non-subscribers, namely copy/pasting the article title into Google, which then allows access.

Thanks for that tip, it's very useful.

londoninvestor

eskbanker wrote: »

On the face of it, the URL is identical so I'm not quite sure exactly how this works, but after reading about this trick on here I've used it a number of times and haven't yet encountered any problems....

The FT web server might check that the HTTP_REFERER (sic) is the address of a Google search page - but that's purely a guess at a plausible way of doing it.