WallyFunk on Ask HN: How Does the NY Times Paywall Work?

Comment on Ask HN: How Does the NY Times Paywall Work?

Not sure how it works, but most of the time with these things you get a limit of three articles per unique session / IP then they prompt you to buy premium. I regularly switch IPs with a VPN and browse with different useragents in a private/incognito session, also with Javascript disabled. This works remarkably well.

For those times it doesn't work, I check if it's on Archive.today[0]

[0] https://archive.ph/

midnitewarrior 3y

Just keep smashing the ESC key when loading a NYT page if you want to read it.

kuba___3y

there is a browser add-on that can bypass paywalls ;) (including NYT paywall)

thescribbblr 3y

Which one?

mokarma 3y

There's some Javascript you can run in the browser console to read articles normally:

```

    (function readArticles(){
     if(document.querySelector('#gateway-content')){
      document.querySelector('#gateway-content').style.display = "none"; 
     }

     if(document.querySelector('#app div div')){
      document.querySelector('#app div div').style.overflowY = "scroll";
     }
     if(document.querySelector('#app div div')){
      document.querySelector('#app div div').lastElementChild.style.display = "none";
     }

     if(document.querySelector('.css-mcm29f')){
      document.querySelector('.css-mcm29f').style.overflowY = "scroll";
      document.querySelector('.css-mcm29f').lastElementChild.style.display="none";
     }
     if(document.querySelector('#site-content')){
      document.querySelector('#site-content').style.position = "relative";
     }
    })()

```

ceasesurthinko 3y

https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean

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