NY Post Goes App-Only For iPad Users 218
bfwebster writes "Browsing the web this morning, I discovered that the New York Post is blocking iPad users from reading its website via Safari. Instead, iPad users must download and use the NY Post App instead. That app previously required a paid subscription (which is one reason I didn't use it); however, the version I downloaded this morning isn't making any demands for payment. Yet."
Alternate browsers available (Score:5, Informative)
even within the "walled garden", there are other browsers available which will let you spoof the user-agent string.
I use the "Atomic" web browser on my iPad and iPod Touch
Re: Walled Garden (Score:5, Informative)
Why is it, nobody appears to be aware of iCab Mobile? It's available for the iPhone and iPad.
A full-featured web browser with tabbed browsing, ad blocking and USER-AGENT SPOOFING.
Details on iCab Mobile on iTunes [apple.com]
Has been available for quite some time.
NY Post (Score:5, Informative)
part of rupert murdoch's IQ lowering propaganda empire
and no, this isn't a swipe at conservativism, it's actually a swipe at china's power:
Re:Not to worry... (Score:5, Informative)
Actually, you can with one of many available browsers in the App Store. With Opera Mini you don't even need to tweak anything, the site just does not seem capable of identifying it as an iPad browser. With Terra, my personal favorite browser (and free) for the iPad, allows me to set a permanent setting to identify as iPad Safari, OSX Safari 5, Internet Explorer 6 or Firerfox 3.6. There are a bunch of others with many different features that Safari does not have, like user agent change, full screen mode, ad blocking, social media integration, themes, bookmark syncing, download managers and built in emailing of files, etc etc.
iOS may be a walled garden, but the walls are nowhere near as tall as some Apple bashers like to think.