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Re:He Loved Opium, Murder and Wordsworth by cryptarch on Thursday November 03, 2016 @10:28AM (#12864171)
Finally got in through the Google referrer (provided by the web link which brings you to a Google search for the article's name), after unblocking Cloudflare and Google in order to solve a captcha where I had to identify street signs and then storefronts for Google's image identification algorithms, after which I had to whitelist NYT cookies, about 12 scripts, and a few static image domains.

Anddd that was my 5 minute break, back to work.

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Re:He Loved Opium, Murder and Wordsworth by cpr on Thursday November 03, 2016 @10:37AM (#12864256)
Why not just open in an incognito window? That always works for me.
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Re:He Loved Opium, Murder and Wordsworth by cryptarch on Thursday November 03, 2016 @12:30PM (#12865427)
That doesn't get me in? Maybe it's because I'm on a VPN.

The captcha's from Cloudflare not liking VPNs, and the bunch of whitelisting is just from their site being very bloated and me not wanting to load unneeded crap.

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