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Sorry for the offtopic post. I recently see a high number of posts linking to nytimes.com. Every time I'm not able to read the articles because they are paywall

Sorry for the offtopic post. I recently see a high number of posts linking to nytimes.com. Every time I'm not able to read the articles because they are paywalled. I'm accessing them from Europe, is the experience different from the US? Or is the majority of HN have NY Times subscription? As an alternative, I found an article by CCN: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/11/12/world/milky-way-black-hole-star-scn/index.html https://edition.cnn.com/2019/11/12/world/milky-way-black-hol...

rch 7y ago
Someone here also usually posts a link to the actual research being reported on, e.g.: https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.11725 https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.11725
skokage 7y ago
It's paywalled everywhere, not just for you. The easiest thing to do for almost any website that is paywalled is to just disable javascript through your browser: https://support.google.com/chrome/forum/AAAAP1KN0B0BYOQskiuGU0/?hl=en&gpf=%23!topic%2Fchrome%2FBYOQskiuGU0 https://support.google.com/chrome/forum/AAAAP1KN0B0BYOQskiuG...
davesque 7y ago
I've had pretty good success by disabling JavaScript.
bildung 7y ago
You can block Javascript and cookies just for nytimes.com. Suddenly the site is fast, too!
novaRom 7y ago
They introduced it like a year ago, so I stopped reading NYT since then.
300bps 7y ago
I use Brave which is a fork of Chromium just like Chrome. Click Settings, Additional Settings, Privacy and Security, Site Settings, Javascript. Then under Block click Add and type www.nytimes.com as the URL and click Add. The site works fine for me then and is sooooo much faster to boot.
205guy 7y ago
Since when are we supposed to read the articles? /s Seriously though, I do not have a NYT subscription (my guess is only 10-15% of HN readers do), and I don't even bother trying to get around the paywall. I just go straight to the HN comments where you can find enough details to understand the story. This works fairly well for NYT articles because the headlines are usually clear (not clickbait) and you can assume the facts are generally accurate. The point is that the comments will discuss the surprising or unusual parts of the story, and those are the ones I'd be interested in too. Then people also post the scientific article or links to other background info if you really want to dig. If after reading the interesting comments, I want to comment myself, I'll go back and read the article to make sure I don't repeat something that was already written.

rch 7y ago

Someone here also usually posts a link to the actual research being reported on, e.g.: https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.11725 https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.11725

skokage 7y ago

It's paywalled everywhere, not just for you. The easiest thing to do for almost any website that is paywalled is to just disable javascript through your browser: https://support.google.com/chrome/forum/AAAAP1KN0B0BYOQskiuGU0/?hl=en&gpf=%23!topic%2Fchrome%2FBYOQskiuGU0 https://support.google.com/chrome/forum/AAAAP1KN0B0BYOQskiuG...

davesque 7y ago

I've had pretty good success by disabling JavaScript.

bildung 7y ago

You can block Javascript and cookies just for nytimes.com. Suddenly the site is fast, too!

novaRom 7y ago

They introduced it like a year ago, so I stopped reading NYT since then.

300bps 7y ago

I use Brave which is a fork of Chromium just like Chrome. Click Settings, Additional Settings, Privacy and Security, Site Settings, Javascript. Then under Block click Add and type www.nytimes.com as the URL and click Add. The site works fine for me then and is sooooo much faster to boot.

205guy 7y ago

Since when are we supposed to read the articles? /s Seriously though, I do not have a NYT subscription (my guess is only 10-15% of HN readers do), and I don't even bother trying to get around the paywall. I just go straight to the HN comments where you can find enough details to understand the story. This works fairly well for NYT articles because the headlines are usually clear (not clickbait) and you can assume the facts are generally accurate. The point is that the comments will discuss the surprising or unusual parts of the story, and those are the ones I'd be interested in too. Then people also post the scientific article or links to other background info if you really want to dig. If after reading the interesting comments, I want to comment myself, I'll go back and read the article to make sure I don't repeat something that was already written.