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With the paywall up [1], I only have access to a couple NYTimes articles per month. I was horrified to discover this was just a link to some stupid op-ed by Dav
by vbtemp 14y ago
With the paywall up [1], I only have access to a couple NYTimes articles per month. I was horrified to discover this was just a link to some stupid op-ed by David Brooks. What a waste. I'm completely sick of all the hot-air professional bullshit-artist columnists. If this linked to a Tom Friedman article, I'd have completely lost it.
[1] I know there are a lot of exceptions, I'm not sure if this will count against my monthly limit if I went to the page via this HN link.
- ht_th 14y agoHere in non-USA-ia, there is no such paywall. Maybe visiting their site through an alien proxy could give you unlimmited access. Then again, why bother as more and more 'articles' as you accurately observe have become short and easy opinion pieces. Where has in-depth research journalism gone? (I would really like to know and am willing to pay for quality content.)
- yummyfajitas 14y agoThe easiest exception to the paywall is incognito mode.
- maxwin 14y agoyou can easily bypass the paywall with a little javascript.
- davidu 14y agoJust use this bookmarklet: javascript:(function()%7Bvar%20s%3Ddocument.createElement(%27script%27)%3Bs.setAttribute(%27src%27,%27http://toys.euri.ca/nyt.js%27)%3Bdocument.getElementsByTagName(%27head%27)%5B0%5D.appendChild(s)%3B%7D)()%3B
- tomjen3 14y agoOpen the link in porn mode.
- twmb 14y agoThey keep track of how many pages you've read in cookies. Delete your cookies. No reason for brash hostility.
- snogglethorpe 14y agoTo avoid the NYT paywall, just append "?_r=1" to the URL (perhaps removing other "?..." stuff). [It seems too simple to last, but has worked great for quite a while...]