Now this might just be the weirdest thing you might have heard all day. If you happen to have an iPad lying around, try getting to the New York Post Website. Well, all was normal until yesterday – but starting today, it will no longer allow you to browse the website if you are using Safari on the iPad. Once you are on the website, a message appears informing you that the editorial content on the website is only accessible on the iPad using the official NY Post app.
If you have been accessing the website using Safari, you would HAVE to download the app and if that wasnt all, subscribe to the paper. Now, all this would have been nice had the app itself been free. Here, neither the app ($1.99) nor the subscription ($6.99 a month) is free. So, basically iPad users are being forced to pay to access a website. This gets even more ridiculous when you learn that those who are already subscribed to the print edition of the newspaper will need to pay again to access the same content on an iPad.
Now this is funny when all other smartphones, including the iPhone has been exempted from this mandatory requirement. Well, even the iPad can access the website if you have an alternative web browser installed on it. Simply install Opera Mini and access the website for free like we tried. On a jailbroken iPad, you can change the user agent of the iPad to fool the NY Post website and make it think that you are reading the content using another device. An app called User Agent Faker (head to Cydia!) will do the trick for you.
All this, only if you are addicted to NY Post and couldn’t be happy reading anything else. I would rather use Google News.