You won't believe this one weird trick

[Kagavi]

ESPN often posts "Insider" articles on their site. For example, I was reading about the NBA Draft recap seen here, hiding behind a sign up screen:

http://www.espn.go.com/basketball/d...eat-denver-nuggets-top-chad-ford-draft-grades

However, ESPN doesn't really care about keeping the paywall up that much, since these "Insider" articles are free in other parts of the world, so if you simply change the bolded part of the address: espn.go.com to espn.co.uk, to get this article URL instead:

http://www.espn.co.uk/basketball/dr...eat-denver-nuggets-top-chad-ford-draft-grades

You can read the whole thing. It works for all articles.

Is this the first "one weird trick" that actually delivers?

 

[bos]

Oh thats coooold.

 

[MeowingCows]

Genius.

 

[MeowingCows]

Sadly, this appears to not work for the Insider Recruiting pages.

 

[Kagavi]

Sadly, this appears to not work for the Insider Recruiting pages.

Hadn't really used this trick much, but I took a look and it is because those pages have a slightly different URL. So for example:

http://insider.espn.go.com/blog/ncfrecruiting/on-the-trail/insider/post?id=69467

Before doing the ONE WEIRD TRICK above, all you have to do is delete the bolded word: insider.espn.go.com and load it with the new URL:

http://espn.co.uk/blog/ncfrecruiting/on-the-trail/insider/post?id=69467

 

[NorthCyd]

So anyone should be able to copy and paste that info now, since you could just say you copied and pasted from the UK page. Loophole!

 

[roundball]

I liek the clickbait thread title!

 

[Rabbuk]

something feels larger.

 

[LindenCy]

something feels larger.

 

[Cycsk]

Does it work for the Kagavi site? What secrets lie behind the normal site? What tricks give me access? I want more Kagavi!

 

[MayorsAge]

I just tried it with this story and it didn't work

http://espn.go.com/mlb/insider/story/_/id/13140693/the-biggest-holes-top-contenders-mlb

 

[CyArob]

I just tried it with this story and it didn't work

http://espn.go.com/mlb/insider/story/_/id/13140693/the-biggest-holes-top-contenders-mlb

worked for me.

http://www.espn.co.uk/baseball/insider/story/_/id/13140693/the-biggest-holes-top-contenders-mlb

 

[MayorsAge]

yep, my bad.

 

[Judoka]

I liek the clickbait thread title!

If it hadn't been for who the OP was i wouldn't have clicked. But I figured it would be worth it.

Even better tip: Take a couple RewardSurvey articles, use the points to get a free subscription to ESPN the Magazine and have free access without even needing a proxy.