Comment by TrackerFF
4 days ago
My biggest gripe with it are the restrictions, indeed.
When searching through the closed newspapers, you have to apply for access manually, which gives you 8 hours of access. Great. Only that the access is seemingly manually granted - so if you apply 16:05 on a Friday, chances are you won't get any access until 9-10 the next Monday.
With that said, I do understand why it is like that. If people could apply via API, and get instant access, they would probably just stop buying newspaper subscriptions.
I actually didn't realise you could apply. I always just went back and ignored the closed ones without reading closely enough apparently. Thanks for making me aware - there are a few that's relevant to me for genealogy reasons that I've not looked at because of this.