Can we talk about the "Mail Plus" subscription for Daily Mail?

[OoohLovelySlippers]

Evening all,

"The DM is a vile, racist, misogynist awful rag and you would have to pay ME to read it." OK, got that out of the way! So anyone wanting to leave a comment like that, I've already done it for you!

For those of us who DO occasionally peruse the most highly-visited news website in the UK and are not ashamed to admit it*, what do we think of this new feature?

*look I'm not saying I agree with everything it says!

£4.99/month nowadays to read the most interesting articles. Not even just the click-baity ones from their high profile columnists but the useful ones about money and the like. And YET there is no reduction in the intrusive adverts and pop up videos. The website version is just unsuable these days because of those. Bearable on the app.

NOTE: I took a trial month subscription out and I was irritated to find there was no option to cancel it online. You had to actually PHONE them do it. Presumably during office hours. Seems a bit tricksy of them!

Do we think this will be a successful venture? As you can tell, I have cancelled after my free trial!

@OoohLovelySlippers

you don’t need to subscribe!!! Just wait for the page to completely load then click “show reader” - works on iPhone anyway.

I read EVERYTHING 🤣🤣🤣

Yeah this 😄 but don’t tell anyone that I read it!

Here:

It's done me a favour as I no longer read Liz Jones , always used to read her column even though she totally wound me up.

The Daily Mail doing something sleazy and underhand? I'm shocked, shocked I tell you! Well, not that shocked.

That being said, a fair number of other newspaper websites are doing much the same albeit not always with the anti-consumer wretchedness of forcing you to phone them to cancel. Online ad sales don't pay much and hardcopy sales figures continue to fall.

If you're a newspaper with a generally good reputation like the FT or the Washington Post then you'll likely have enough brand loyalty to make it worthwhile. A rag like the Daily Heil is more disposable so hopefully it'll wither and die.

Just use archive.ph and you have no need to pay anything.

If you're on an iPhone, press the image circled in green and then press on 'show reader' circled in pink. This will allow you to read 99% of subscription articles including the Daily Fail

I've got a smart phone is that different

Sorry what's PH ?

How do you do this?

Copy the link of the article you want to read and paste it into the box on the website archive.ph

How do I find my clip board pls