Userscript to bypass the badly implemented paywall on nytimes.com. Use the “raw” links to install.

nytimes-option-a.user.js

// ==UserScript==
// @name Bypass New York Times paywall (20 article limit)
// @author Mathias Bynens <http://mathiasbynens.be/>
// @link http://mths.be/axa
// @match http://www.nytimes.com/*
// ==/UserScript==

(function(d) {
	d.getElementById('overlay').style.display = 'none';
	d.getElementById('gatewayCreative').style.display = 'none';
	d.body.style.overflow = 'scroll';
}(document));

nytimes-option-b.user.js

// ==UserScript==
// @name Bypass New York Times paywall (20 article limit)
// @author Mathias Bynens <http://mathiasbynens.be/>
// @link http://mths.be/axa
// @match http://www.nytimes.com/*
// ==/UserScript==

(function(d) {
	[].forEach.call(d.querySelectorAll('#overlay, #gatewayCreative'), function(e) {
		e.style.display = 'none';
	});
	d.body.style.overflow = 'scroll';
}(document));

I use Mac OS X and tried to enter these options in Terminal. Don’t work!

Will some kind techie tell us Mac users how to accomplish this code.

Thanks in advance!

@unblocktheplanet This is JavaScript, so you would have to open up Web Inspector in Safari, go to Console, paste the above snippet in there and hit Return. If you’re using Opera or Chrome, you can just click either one of the “Raw” links above to install the userscript. For Firefox, you would have to install Greasemonkey first.

@mathiasbynens Nice! If you want, you can make the second option even smaller:

(function(d) {
  [].forEach.call(d.querySelectorAll('#overlay, #gatewayCreative'), function(e) {
    e.style.display = 'none';
  });
  d.body.style.overflow = 'scroll';
}(document));

@kitgoncharov Thanks for the suggestion! (I should have thought of that.)

According to http://wesbos.com/remove-new-york-times-paywall-css/ they've changed the div from #gatewayCreative to #gatewayUnit.

Here's a work-around hack that works with Tampermonkey

// ==UserScript==
// @name         Bypass New York Times paywall (20 article limit)
// @author       Jason Khanlar <jason.khanlar@gmail.com>
// @link         http://mths.be/axa
// @match        http://www.nytimes.com/*
// @match        https://www.nytimes.com/*
// @grant        GM_webRequest
// @webRequest   [{"selector":"https://www.nytimes.com/*","action":"cancel"}]
// @run-at       document-start
// ==/UserScript==

neither option works anymore