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How I Read the New York Times
- ronnier 16y agoTry my small project http://viewtext.org http://viewtext.org
- modeless 16y agoHoly crap, you add full article text to RSS feeds? My hero!
- aheilbut 16y agoOr you could get over it, create an account, sign in once, and then never worry again.
- smoody 16y agoexactly. i can't remember the last time i saw the nytimes login page.
- Pewpewarrows 16y agoYou do realize that if this was any other website you (or others making this comment) would be up in arms all over the internet over it, including these very HN comments? Is this really the same HackerNews community that goes ape shit over the smallest usability no-nos on random Joe's website, but is perfectly fine with NYT practically stonewalling their entire website behind a login screen?
- scott_s 16y agoI'm not perfectly fine with it - I just decided it was worth it many years ago and never thought about it since. The value of the NYT is, to me, obvious and enormous. Some new random webapp cannot make that claim.
- andrewacove 16y agoI guess the value for me isn't. A lot of the time, I don't go through the effort to read it.
- berntb 16y agorms? Love Emacs and the other stuff you've done for decades, thanks! :-) There is a solution. Write a Firefox/Chrome/.* plugin which randomly generates a login name and password every time it sees the login screen -- and after the page is opened, logs out again... just to be clean.
- modeless 16y agoExcept when I clear my cookies (rare), or use a different browser or computer (often). Also, I'll forget the password unless I reuse one I type more often, but password reuse is bad. Better for NYTimes to "get over it" and stop with the registration wall.
- forcer 16y agoor use http://www.nytimes.com/chrome/ http://www.nytimes.com/chrome/
- doron 16y agohttp://www.bugmenot.com/ http://www.bugmenot.com/
- barrkel 16y agoRefControl extension: set HTTP Referer to news.google.com or similar.
- nsenifty 16y agoRight click, open in Incognito works if you are using Chrome.
- Xuzz 16y agoOne way you can do this same thing, just simpler, is append "http://google.com/url?q= http://google.com/url?q= before the NYTimes URL. You still have to click through the Google XSRF prevention page, but it's a lot simpler and doesn't depend on the Googlebot having hit the page yet.
- modeless 16y agoIn Chrome a Google search is in the right-click menu after selecting the article title text. Four clicks and no typing beats URL hacking, and Googlebot is so fast these days that it's always seen the page before I got there, and it's always the first hit for the full article title (even without quotes).