Nice little trick to display hidden content on websites

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Hello all.

I like to share a little trick which will display website content that's normally hidden for visitors.
There are a lot of websites hiding valuable content for not-registered visitors to these sites. Only when you register you can view the content. But what if you don't want to go to the time-consuming registering-process and want to speed up things to get to the content yuo want.Here is how you can do it.

What we need:- Webbrowser (obvious), I use Firefox for this.

- Addon: Firebug, download it here https://getfirebug.com/ and install this addon to firefox
- Addon: User agent switcher, download it here https://addons.mozilla.org/nl/firefox/addon/user-agent-switcher/

If necessary restart your browser.

Let's try a real life example.When you're searching for infomation and encounter something like this:




What the heck? I don't want to register, I only want the content I was looking for.

Here's how:Change the user-agent of your browser with the user-agent-switcher addon.
Go to "extra" in your firefox menu, go to the "default user agent" and select "search robots" "googlebot 2.1".
Now your webbrowser identifies itself as if Google was visiting this website.

Now fire up firebug from your webbrowser:



On the bottom of your browser the firebug extentsion loads. Go to "Cookies"and press control-shift-o to delete all the cookie-info for this site.



Reload your webbrowser and watch the magic happen.As you can now see that the annoiing "register to see the content" message has gone and you can freely watch the content you were looking for without registering to the website.



Have fun!

No longer blind (it is bad enough being deaf 505 of the time), thanks for the fix, OP.

Thanks to OP, I can speak 2 languages now... English and Base64.

That's one pretty messed up post, OP. Thanks for killing my browser.

Sorry guys, I had some problems with images, I'm woking on it to make a more readable version.

Thanks op for this.

On the search results I used to click google cache. But you only see a single page at a time (sucks if following a forum thread!).

Save time & stay unregistered!

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Thanks for sharing this, really usefull

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dont just comment one liners saying thanks and very useful everywhere...there is a thanks button for that...

Nice one. Firefox one up again.

Thanks OP -- i never would have thought to try that. i hate those "register now" links because i never keep track of those registrations

Yep. It's useful.

hi, it doesn't work...still hidden.

Thanks, that a good one, i will add everything to my FF right now!!

if we delete cookie we have to login again. this trick not working.

thanks for the nice method

Thanks for the share

lol thanks op!!

Thanks for the great tip !

Thanks for the share. Will try it out.

good jo OP i really needed this

Not a new trick OP but well done on sharing...