You will go straight to jail 😡😡😡
excellent psa
Doesn’t NYT cut off most of the article now? I used to just be able to disable JS but that didn’t work anymore last I checked.
Yeah the article stub doesn’t link to the article. It links to a login flow with the article id. If you go directly to the article you get redirected if you don’t have a session.
It’s incredibly easy to make an impossible to get around paywall. Porn has done it since the Internet existed.
In this very particular situation I’m glad most companies are lazy and stupid.
I don’t particularly care if a company does pay only content. I think its legitimately ok. I hate companies that don’t make you pay enough for the service to cover their costs thus leading to complete enshitifaction.
I thought the issue was they wanted search engines to be able to see the content, but not non paying viewers? Hence slightly shitty paywalls.
It’s incredibly easy to make an impossible to get around paywall.
Sure, but the easily-bypassed js method makes sure it’s still crawlable by search engines, which is a trade well worth making where I work. Doesn’t matter as much for porn sites since the title and description aren’t the content most people are there for, so you can expose them on the paywall page.
Maybe they have a way to unblock major search engine crawlers but block it for everyone else now? I know Cloudflare was doing something similar for some bot protection mechanism, and this seems like something news outlets would want to do also.
Very true. I don’t disagree at all. I think once google finally becomes totally useless. It won’t matter.
I mean Google is already just Yellow Pages AdWords edition with AI content
I use this extension and it lets me bypass pretty every paywall including NYT’s
Best extension along with uBlock Origins!
Warning. Russian orc website. Beware.
If you’re afraid of visiting Russian websites, piracy is probably not for you.
Russian websites aren’t the problem. Software from Russian websites potentially is.
What a bullshit argument. Oh yes, untrusted software from random sites in any other top-level domain is safe.
Shouldnt you be on the ukraine front lines with your commrades?
Brave browser has a filter to bypass paywalls. Works on desktop and mobile versions. Definitely works on NYT as I just read something there today. And of course has built in adblock. You can also add additional filters and adblock lists.
Bonus: print to PDF in Brave to share an article with someone else. It retains all the graphics relevant to the article and cuts all the junk and ads out too.
Absolutely do not inspect elements and start deleting stuff! Leave them alone!
Brave browser has a filter to bypass paywalls. Works on desktop and mobile versions. Definitely works on NYT as I just read something there today. And of course has built in adblock. You can also add additional filters and adblock lists.
Bonus: print to PDF in Brave to share an article with someone else. It retains all the graphics relevant to the article and cuts all the junk and ads out too.
brave has a filter you can add to auto-bypass paywalls already right there to be selected after install
Came to say this. And they make mobile browsers. If I want to share a paywalled article with someone I just load it up in brave and print it to PDF then send them that. Works every time!
I always break the ctrl key right off my keyboard when I get a new computer so I don’t accidentally do this.
I do that with the windows key…
there’s no new big wall of information from the NY Times. ask them, what’s the scoop? my opinion, take a moment. wtf are you doing?
Archive.is is definitely not an alternative that people should use in this situation
Nor archive.ph, which appears to be the same site? Idk how that works. Definitely not a site anyone should go to, though.
Nor archive.md nor archive.today, which appear to be run by the same rogue actors and serve the same content as archive.is and archive.ph. Beware.
Yup. They went full OG AdBlock and got WaPo and other major publications to prevent them from working.
You can mimic what they did by adding the Google Crawler user agent to your browser but I just use archive.is
I’d like to prepend that this dude is correct.
Or the appendix of a book
I got my prependix taken out as a kid due to an infection.
Ever had someone ask to prepone a meeting?
Precrastination is when you get too far ahead on a group project because you’re avoiding another awfuller thing.
honestly i wish we called the gallbladder the prependix
“Append…before”, AKA “prepend”!
Definitely don’t use uBlock Origin’s zapper mode to get rid of elements on the page that are blocking your view.
Then you just get an unblocked half an article
On mobile Firefox, two right swipes in the middle of the screen closes zapper mode. It is not clear or obvious, but it works.
I have been using inspect element to manually remove ads and other annoying things
Thanks for reminding me!
^ This person adblocks
Disabling JavaScript through ublock origin also does the same (horrible) thing, frequently.
cocks the element zapper Say hello to my little friend!
I’ve used ublock for years and only recently discovered the zapper and it’s my new favorite thing on the internet
I often forget YouTube shorts are a thing because i zapped them away.
You sir are a gentleman and a scholar, cheers for this
I don’t generally use it, but safari got this baked in recently
I just use Bypass Paywalls Clean, or failing that, archive.vn.
Back during prohibition in the US, there was a product called Vine-Glo that was a brick of grape concentrate. It came with a warning: “After dissolving the brick in a gallon of water, do not place the liquid in a jug away in the cupboard for twenty days, because then it would turn into wine.”
And God forbid if someone uses archiving sites like archive.is!
Truly awful. How will the news megacorp get its money? You wouldn’t steal the information required for you to be aware of world events? Right?
If you just want to be aware, you could often read the headlines for free or follow news sites like Reuters, AFP, or AP.
They are primarily wire news companies and are a great way to get reliable, truthful and often free news. If you want to read longer articles, you should pay if you want to have articles to read in the future.
Agreed
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