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I guess outline.com doesn't work on NYT any more. Copy/paste here?

by TheBeardKing 8y ago

imglorp 8y ago
Just delete all your nyt cookies.
- brootstrap 8y ago
  brilliant, does this work? It makes sense, great little hack
  - imglorp 8y ago
    For a while...reapply as needed. That said, NYT is one of my top news sites and I feel it's worth subscribing to support their traditional journalism model.
pgrote 8y ago
http://archive.is/6N9jR http://archive.is/6N9jR
duxup 8y ago
Do what you got to do, but I'd like to take a moment to say I signed up for an online subscription. Journalism is important and I'm ok with a couple bucks a month to support it.
- mises 8y ago
  I would rather not support the New York Times. I find their coverage to be overtly biased, and don't think that's worth giving money to. I think the Wall Street Journal is closest to center: reporting leans left; editorials lean right.
  - duxup 8y ago
    To each their own. I've found WSJ is fine, it gets a little simplistic at times where I find it a bit disingenuous. Too many "here's a one line bar graph that shows a thing going up 10 years after de/regulation" like that's not evidence of anything.... but that's hardly unique among news these days. Outside of what I think are the obviously truly "biased" groups, I don't perceive it as just left or right all the time. I think there's a lot of room to cover a story various ways and not necessarily be "biased". But I certainly see how folks think that way, it does worry me though, even on HN you'll see "here's 3 negative sounding articles about this topic... that reporter is biased". Like that's not necessarily biased man...
    - mises 8y ago
      I agree that WSJ isn't perfect, I just think it's good about breaking news and original reporting. The rest, I get from other sources (including far-left and far-right ones). It's part of a balanced news diet, so to speak. I understand not everyone is biased, but the NYT is still not good about it. The top of their front page today is the Israeli election "through the eyes of a palestinian". Top of the page has an article called, "How Capitalism Betrayed Privacy". Also top is an article entitled, "How Big Business Is Hedging Against the Apocalypse", followed by an article about how the "digital world is not designed to keep women safe." that advocates for regulation (but seriously, why would we design the internet to keep one group safe? And how?). I understand that doesn't make everything they report wrong, and I still read articles by them, but I'd rather support the WSJ if I've got to pick one.
rjf72 8y ago
Brave browser + anti-fingerprinting and blocking third party cookies gets rid of 90% of paywalls, including NYT. Blocking scripts gets rid of 9% more and then you're left with 1% that are quite onerous. All these settings are one-click options which can be saved on a per-site basis (if, for instance you'd prefer to allow device fingerprinting by default for some reason) using the lion icon in the top right. It also now has things like one click instanced tor browsing (e.g. if its necessary to spoof your location for some site) and more. It started out as a nice idea, but has become leagues ahead of every other browser in terms of privacy. It's incidental, and I think poetic, that basic privacy protection ends up breaking paywalls as many are dependent upon tracking users.

I guess outline.com doesn't work on NYT any more. Copy/paste here?

imglorp 8y ago

Just delete all your nyt cookies.

brootstrap 8y ago
brilliant, does this work? It makes sense, great little hack
- imglorp 8y ago
  For a while...reapply as needed. That said, NYT is one of my top news sites and I feel it's worth subscribing to support their traditional journalism model.

pgrote 8y ago

http://archive.is/6N9jR http://archive.is/6N9jR

duxup 8y ago

Do what you got to do, but I'd like to take a moment to say I signed up for an online subscription. Journalism is important and I'm ok with a couple bucks a month to support it.

mises 8y ago
I would rather not support the New York Times. I find their coverage to be overtly biased, and don't think that's worth giving money to. I think the Wall Street Journal is closest to center: reporting leans left; editorials lean right.
- duxup 8y ago
  To each their own. I've found WSJ is fine, it gets a little simplistic at times where I find it a bit disingenuous. Too many "here's a one line bar graph that shows a thing going up 10 years after de/regulation" like that's not evidence of anything.... but that's hardly unique among news these days. Outside of what I think are the obviously truly "biased" groups, I don't perceive it as just left or right all the time. I think there's a lot of room to cover a story various ways and not necessarily be "biased". But I certainly see how folks think that way, it does worry me though, even on HN you'll see "here's 3 negative sounding articles about this topic... that reporter is biased". Like that's not necessarily biased man...
  - mises 8y ago
    I agree that WSJ isn't perfect, I just think it's good about breaking news and original reporting. The rest, I get from other sources (including far-left and far-right ones). It's part of a balanced news diet, so to speak. I understand not everyone is biased, but the NYT is still not good about it. The top of their front page today is the Israeli election "through the eyes of a palestinian". Top of the page has an article called, "How Capitalism Betrayed Privacy". Also top is an article entitled, "How Big Business Is Hedging Against the Apocalypse", followed by an article about how the "digital world is not designed to keep women safe." that advocates for regulation (but seriously, why would we design the internet to keep one group safe? And how?). I understand that doesn't make everything they report wrong, and I still read articles by them, but I'd rather support the WSJ if I've got to pick one.

rjf72 8y ago

Brave browser + anti-fingerprinting and blocking third party cookies gets rid of 90% of paywalls, including NYT. Blocking scripts gets rid of 9% more and then you're left with 1% that are quite onerous. All these settings are one-click options which can be saved on a per-site basis (if, for instance you'd prefer to allow device fingerprinting by default for some reason) using the lion icon in the top right. It also now has things like one click instanced tor browsing (e.g. if its necessary to spoof your location for some site) and more. It started out as a nice idea, but has become leagues ahead of every other browser in terms of privacy. It's incidental, and I think poetic, that basic privacy protection ends up breaking paywalls as many are dependent upon tracking users.