Tt post aug 11 2017

"Is there a way around this? An alternative?"

Yes.

Unfortunately for the Blade, their setup to encourage users to pay for content can be easily bypassed by disabling JavaScript in your web browsers.

You can disable JavaScript for specific domain names.

If you don't want to dive into your web browser settings to disable JavaScript and to create exceptions for specific websites, then use the NoScript add-on for Firefox, or use the Quick JavaScript Switcher extension for Chrome.

On desktop/laptop computers, I make heavy use of Quick JavaScript Switcher when reading the web.

Occasionally when using Safari on the iPhone, I disable JavaScript globally because it's about the only way to read the web at times, especially over slow internet connections, since so many read-only websites are massively bloated.

Disabling JavaScript prevents the display of most ads and prevents the execution of most trackers and other crapware, which leads to web pages loading much faster.

I'm talking about websites where I'm a browsing-only user (reader). I'm not talking about web apps that require me to login where I work from an admin console or a dashboard. For the latter, I'm fine with JavaScript.

Some websites produce nothing when JavaScript is disabled. That's okay. It's still a big-ass web. Other websites exist to read.

For Blade sports stories, you may need to visit bcsn.tv directly.

If you click a toledoblade.com sports link with JavaScript disabled for toledoblade.com, you might see a blank page. That's because some Blade sports links redirect to bcsn.tv.

For example, with JavaScript disabled in the web browser for the domain name "toledoblade.com", this link displays a blank page.

http://www.toledoblade.com/Pro/2017/08/11/What-s-the-word-on-cleveland-browns-deshone-Kizer.html

That's because the above link or web page relies on JavaScript to redirect the reader to the real story location, which is found here.

http://www.bcsn.tv/news_article/show/822468

If for some sadistic reason you want to read media websites with JavaScript enabled, then this works.

• leave JavaScript enabled
• install Privacy Badger - https://www.eff.org/privacybadger

Even with JavaScript enabled, I never reach the Blade's article limit because of what's being blocked by Privacy Badger.