How to access Experts-Exchange without paying

Back in the day I used to browse and contribute to Experts-Exchange (http://www.experts-exchange.com) That was before they turned their service into an ad laden pay to use service. What's even worse is that I can't remove the past posts I made on their as a sign of my dissatisfaction with their move to charge people to access information. You already know my stance on freedom of information, so it should make perfect sense that I don't like their practice. The one thing I can do about it, though, is tell you how to access the content of the site without having to pay for an account. Just consider it my way of liberating information for the masses.

The first thing you want to do is make sure that you have the Mozilla Firefox web browser installed on your computer. You can head over to http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ and download it. I highly recommend this browser over Microsoft's Internet Explorer, and you can just search around Google for comparisons between the two to see why. Once that is installed, go to your Tools Menu, select Options, then click on the Privacy icon. Click on the Show Cookies radio button and scroll through the list looking for 'experts-exchange'. If you don't see it in the list, GOOD, if you do, click on it and then click on Remove Cookie. Now click close. Once you are back to the Options window, look right above the Show Cookies button you clicked, it should say Exceptions. Click on it, and in the text box type 'experts-exchange' (without the quotes) and click Block. Then close the window and click Ok to close the Options menu.

All of the configuration is done. Now, anytime you want to see something from experts-exchange, just head over to the site (or click on a Google search link if you searched through Google) and search for what you want on the site. If you scroll toward the bottom, all of the normally garbles posts that they use to hide the content will be plainly visible. You will still see the garbled posts toward the top, but the unscrambled information will be toward the bottom. This is how you liberate information.

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