How to read The Economist for free?

The Economist is one of the greatest resources for English learners for it has a broad coverage of topics and the article’s style is elegant and accurate, which can benefit readers who wish to improve their ability in both reading and writing. However, the Economist itself is not free, and the only official way to get access to it is by paying monthly or annually. Is there any way to read it for free? The answer is YES.

http://scientificmagazines.top/ provides a large number of magazines including The Economist, which are all free to download even without requiring to register or login. The limitation of this method is that only a few issues can be found there, so what else can we do?

All issues since 1997 can be found at its official site https://www.economist.com/weeklyedition/archive. To read it for free, you need to use Chrome on any system including Android, and disable the JavaScript on this site. Then you can get access to all editions of The Economist for free.

It doesn’t work anymore

How do I get this to work on chrome on my iPhone? I have disabled javascript but it’s still not working. Thanks in advance for your help.

Same here. This trick works everywhere except for Chrome in my iPhone. Any tips?

Thanks for the Java tip!

Did this stop working? Was using for a while, but now each article only shows first couple of paragraphs.

Just disabled javascript, but only the first paragraph showed up. Guess they changed their system.

This is too bad, They finally noticed it and changed the loading process. No way I can pay 320€ for subscription.

Does anyone have an idea to solve this?

Go on the website of your local library. Register as a local resident. They usually have free online access to Pressreader which has The Economist free (well your library is paying a monthly subscription for your community).

Pessoal pra quem é universitário aproveitem o The Economist Expresso está de graça durante 1 ano corre lá gente (somente quem tá matriculado em universidade ou escola): https://subscribenow.economist.com/student?check=1

Doesn’t work anymore

Still working Nov 3, 2024

Right now their web site says you can try it for a month free of charge. I used to pay around $500 a year over 30 years ago so, in real terms, it is relatively inexpensive today. However, those looking for answers to issues will be often disappointed as it tends to publish articles that often end by asking more questions.

There are also these ones if one is in the right library/university.

If you disable JavaScript in Chrome, you need to add www.economist.com NOT economist.com as it appears in Chrome.

However, you now only see a summary of the article anyway.

First you open The Economist page in incognito mod and create a account by clicking ‘‘register now’’. Second, randomly fill the blanks, it doesn’t matter what you write, just type random gmail account on mail. Write random password and continue. The Economist gives you 1 free artical for each account you oppened. The process of opening an account takes around 40-50 second so you need to be patient.

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Thanks bro, it works.