Ask HN: How Does the NY Times Paywall Work?

Re:Ask HN: How Does the NY Times Paywall Work? by WallyFunk on Sunday September 25, 2022 @12:53PM (#32973257)

Not sure how it works, but most of the time with these things you get a limit of three articles per unique session / IP then they prompt you to buy premium. I regularly switch IPs with a VPN and browse with different useragents in a private/incognito session, also with Javascript disabled. This works remarkably well.

For those times it doesn't work, I check if it's on Archive.today[0]

[0] https://archive.ph/

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Re:Ask HN: How Does the NY Times Paywall Work? by midnitewarrior on Monday September 26, 2022 @12:45AM (#32979521)

Just keep smashing the ESC key when loading a NYT page if you want to read it.

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Re:Ask HN: How Does the NY Times Paywall Work? by kuba___ on Sunday September 25, 2022 @01:14PM (#32973507)

there is a browser add-on that can bypass paywalls ;) (including NYT paywall)

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Re:Ask HN: How Does the NY Times Paywall Work? by thescribbblr on Sunday September 25, 2022 @03:27PM (#32975046)

Which one?

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Re:Ask HN: How Does the NY Times Paywall Work? by mokarma on Sunday September 25, 2022 @04:44PM (#32976006)

There's some Javascript you can run in the browser console to read articles normally:

```

    (function readArticles(){
     if(document.querySelector('#gateway-content')){
      document.querySelector('#gateway-content').style.display = "none"; 
     }

     if(document.querySelector('#app div div')){
      document.querySelector('#app div div').style.overflowY = "scroll";
     }
     if(document.querySelector('#app div div')){
      document.querySelector('#app div div').lastElementChild.style.display = "none";
     }

     if(document.querySelector('.css-mcm29f')){
      document.querySelector('.css-mcm29f').style.overflowY = "scroll";
      document.querySelector('.css-mcm29f').lastElementChild.style.display="none";
     }
     if(document.querySelector('#site-content')){
      document.querySelector('#site-content').style.position = "relative";
     }
    })()

```

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Re:Ask HN: How Does the NY Times Paywall Work? by ceasesurthinko on Monday September 26, 2022 @07:45PM (#32990096)

https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean

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