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Is there a way to see NY times articles? Hn links to NY times always brings up a pay wall.

A bit easier but also more expensive than the other options mentioned: Pay for a NY times subscription.

This is one thing I did to attempt to make a small difference in the current climate, picked a few media outlets I thought were doing a good job and paid for subscriptions. Living in very solidly blue places, nothing else I have done has likely mattered at all.

You can do a lot in blue states/towns, but it involves pushing the Democratic party further left (Medicare for All, Abolish ICE, Affordable housing, and more) if that's your cup of tea.

It isn't my cup of tea. Pushing democrats further from center makes them lose more than they already do. I also don't think many of those things achieve their goals or are correct for a free society depending on context.

I'm a very blue moderate with some ideas that are sometimes rather far from the traditional one dimensional spectrum.

Note that if you have a .edu email, you can get a NYT sub for $1/wk.

I happily pay for a number of subscriptions.

Sites like The Guardian, New Yorker, Atlantic, etc seem to do a better job. Newspaper funnels are entertaining - I spent some years in the newspaper world when this experimenting with paywalls started.

As a technologist, I see value after consistently accessing more than a few articles a month.. closer to 10 is where I see enough value to pay. I'm sure I'm only one persona though in their funnel.

I did that for a while until I became completely disillusioned with them. They're in the pocket of corporations and the White House (they actually suppress news if the WH doesn't like it). Find a more progressive outlet than them if you want to pay for media. They can certainly use the cash.

EDIT: Here's a recent case of NYT suppressing newsworthy clips: https://theintercept.com/2018/06/20/administration-of-hate-t... Search for "The Daily" in the transcript.

I am pretty disillusioned with them too, and they do push an agenda in many areas (pro-military, anti-tech, etc). I loathe their opinion pages, they're a weird mix of bland and constantly pseudo-outraged. But I still like lots of stuff they create and a subscription isn't super expensive, so paying seems like the right thing to me personally. I'm just reading a newspaper, not looking for someone to marry. (I wouldn't want to marry someone who always agrees with me either, come to think of it.)

Yea I knock on them for the same reasons, but when the topic isn't of national interest, they have some excellent story tellers and reporters. Their digital remixes are great too (e.g. Snowfall and its intellectual children).

Nonetheless, as my perspective evolved, I realized I can't countenance supporting them when they endorsed actual evil like the Iraq War and perpetuate so many things wrong in society. They'll always let you down when it counts, so I don't see a reason to be there for them when it doesn't.

I use incognito browsing mode and some extensions, would incognito alone work for you? Otherwise I think I'm using privacy badger and fair adblocker?

https://www.google.com/search?q=Library+subscription+new+yor...

https://outline.com/tyLgaw

Visit the article from a web search on the title.

Disabling JavaScript works for me, no paywall.

Same here. NoScript in default deny all JS and the article appears with no paywall.

Here's a plugin for FF and Chrome:

https://bypasspaywalls.weebly.com/

my standard PSA: any browser plugin you install has a full clear text view of content on ALL the websites you visit. choose wisely.

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