"You've reached your free article limit."

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Flex68
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Logged-in to my account (been a member since 2016) and read a couple of articles, made a couple of comments.
Tried to access another article, and received a pop-up window stating that, "You've reached your free article limit."
Logged-out and back in, and immediately received the same pop-up window/message.
Logged-out again, cleared my History and cache, restarted my computer, clicked on the email to be able to review the S.A. article that I was interested in, and logged back into my account with S.A.
Immediately received the same BS pop-up message again.
Niiiiice!

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SA Admin Shubham Shresth
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Hi there,

Thanks for reaching out!

In order to continue providing our users with outstanding financial analysis and news, we changed our Paywall policy in January 2021.

You can read more about this change here: https://seekingalpha.com/article/4396836-important-update-for-seeking-alpha-users

The good news is that you can still access any article on any stock, even without a paid subscription, though there is a monthly limit to how much you can read.

We do notify the member of when they are close to reaching their limit and when they have reached their limit with the following banners:

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If you want to keep reading past the limit, you can just go ahead and start your free two-week trial of Seeking Alpha Premium - no commitment required.

Premium, apart from providing you unlimited access to analysis articles also provides you with many other powerful tools that can help you with your investing. You can get an overview of the service here.

Thank you and please feel free to reach out if you need any more help!


Regards,
Shubham Shresth
Data QA Analyst, Seeking Alpha

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kritische geest 1

I believe, going from a free visit on the website towards asking 240 dollars / year, is a bit to much. I thought I was contributing to the dialogue, discussions, gave my views on the matter,... Maybe have to seek for a other forum.

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DadeLine

...they are going to lose content (comments) ...they are on the slippery slope

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johngonole

pay wall just hit me today.  I wasn't even aware there was one.   Before I just logged in and just certain areas were off limits.  I don't even know what the monthly and or daily limit is.   I will try again in a month and see what happens.  Premium didn't offer much from what I could tell.    I  was spending too much time here anyways. 

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georgetrad

Same, the paywall hit me today as well. Not sure what the limit is for reading articles before you have to pay. 

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aehenry
Quote from SA Admin Shubham Shresth

Hi there,

Thanks for reaching out!

In order to continue providing our users with outstanding financial analysis and news, we changed our Paywall policy in January 2021.

You can read more about this change here: https://seekingalpha.com/article/4396836-important-update-for-seeking-alpha-users

The good news is that you can still access any article on any stock, even without a paid subscription, though there is a monthly limit to how much you can read.

We do notify the member of when they are close to reaching their limit and when they have reached their limit with the following banners:

Image

If you want to keep reading past the limit, you can just go ahead and start your free two-week trial of Seeking Alpha Premium - no commitment required.

Premium, apart from providing you unlimited access to analysis articles also provides you with many other powerful tools that can help you with your investing. You can get an overview of the service here.

Thank you and please feel free to reach out if you need any more help!


Regards,
Shubham Shresth
Data QA Analyst, Seeking Alpha

I guess no more seeking alfa for me. If I pay for a service I'd pick Chuck Carnevales service. What is the monthly limit?

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D. Davis

10yr+ contributor via comments. Just deleted all my SA portfolios as I unwind any association and say goodby to my fellow contribting commentors.

Mr. Hoffman is rolling in his grave.

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Trade-stocks-Drink-IPAs

Paywall hit me today and no way i’m paying. It’s been a fun ride SA but now I’m officially done with this service. 

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LPeepo

Just be honest and say we want everyone to become a paying customer. $20 a month seems quite steep after the $99 first year deal. Time to move on! 

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TheyOnlyGoUp
Quote from johngonole

pay wall just hit me today.  I wasn't even aware there was one.   Before I just logged in and just certain areas were off limits.  I don't even know what the monthly and or daily limit is.   I will try again in a month and see what happens.  Premium didn't offer much from what I could tell.    I  was spending too much time here anyways. 

This is so frustrating.  I always appreciated that certain articles were off limits due to a pay wall, but the ability to read some was nice.  I guess I'll have to see how much I miss it, but I doubt I'll miss it enough to pay the full $99/year(which is discounted!)

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8man

Agree with most comments that it’s too bad. Will thin the commenters. Although as someone commented above I was probably spending too much time on here anyway, so this might be a good thing.