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First 4 lines of java, now 2 lines of CSS. I'm feeling a new game of golf coming on. What's the fewest characters required to defeat the NY Times paywall?
by noonespecial 16y ago
First 4 lines of java, now 2 lines of CSS. I'm feeling a new game of golf coming on.
What's the fewest characters required to defeat the NY Times paywall?
- wesbos 16y agoThanks for submitting this! I thought of an even smaller way to do it: $=""; Since they use prototype as $, we can just break the library before they load it in ;)
- mike-cardwell 16y ago$=0; :p
- cosgroveb 16y agoI just clicked around the NYT and opened about 20 articles to get the paywall to come up so I could find my own way around it. Couldn't even trigger the paywall. Does it come up when a 3rd party site links to an article or after a certain amount of usage? Given how difficult it seems to be to actually GET to the paywall I can't see any point to all of this.
- kahawe 16y agoI may be a little late to the party but from my understanding: > a paywall where you can only view 20 articles ..they are probably using some sort of cookie to track how many articles you have read? Then you need no lines of code at all. Just don't accept the tracking cookies.