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Steps to get around NYT Paywall

A step by step guide wallthrough on how to access / read a NYT paywalled article

  1. Open the NYT article you want to read in incognito mode
  2. Open up your devtool console ([cmd][shift][j] on chrome/mac)
  3. Open up the devtools command prompt ([cmd][shift][P] on chrome/mac)
  4. Type in the command disable javascript into the command prompt, but don't hit enter
  5. Reload the page
  6. After the content loads but before the paywall appears, enter your disable javascript command
  7. If paywall persists, return to step 3. Otherwise, enjoy your free article.
  8. Happy reading!
@Bathsheba
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doesn't work

@emilianosalatino
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you can also hit stop on the browser, and it'll prevent it from loading using the steps above. .. doesn't work without the console open

@jakkrobbit
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Works for NYT recipes, too. No need to for incognito mode, either.

@dhiaagr
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dhiaagr commented Aug 23, 2022

Works great, thank you

@aembleton
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@kainam00
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kainam00 commented Nov 7, 2022

There is a much easier way.
Simply save the page to your machine (via a "curl" command or ctrl+s in the browser) and open the saved HTML file.

FWIW - I support journalism and would gladly pay to read individual articles, but 95% of the NYT content is not interesting to me, so the subscription model doesn't make sense.

@sneurlax
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There is a much easier way. Simply save the page to your machine (via a "curl" command or ctrl+s in the browser) and open the saved HTML file.

FWIW - I support journalism and would gladly pay to read individual articles, but 95% of the NYT content is not interesting to me, so the subscription model doesn't make sense.

This apparently doesn't work any more

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