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Comment by nogabebop23 | Hacker News Reader

What am I missing? I can't view any of the NYT articles posted here; all I get is a overlay with subscription options. Same goes for most WaPo, Bloomberg and economist articles.

Is everyone else on HN a subscriber to all these publications or am I missing something?

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Typically people will post a link to bypass the overlay using something like http://archive.is/, or https://outline.com/

I believe there is also a social rule here on HN that it is fine to ask for a bypass link, but it is not fine to complain about websites trying to stay solvent

EDIT: here is a bypass for the article. If you enjoyed it, consider subscribing to the NYT

http://archive.is/jA5jJ

In this case the article is considered part of NYT's Covid-19 coverage, so is accessible with a free email-based signup.

With noscript, both NYT and WaPO works without any issues (just some images are missing). It is also much faster than with scripts.

you can circumvent most paywalls just by using reader mode on firefox. for the sites where that doesn't work, this usually does: https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-firefox

Pick a browser you never use and wipe the cache and cookies between articles.

You're missing developer tools in your browser, I think. :)

The paywall of any

    www.nytimes.com

article can be bypassed by changing the hostname to

    www.nytimes.com.

with a dot at the end.

Wow. TIL

Hmm.. it screws up CORS to get user subscription info. Good find! (and good lesson)

Could you explain that in more detail? I understand that the dot tells the DNS resolver that it's an absolute domain name rather than relative, but after that I'm lost.

Pocket (getpocket.com) gets around many paywalls.

I think a lot of HN members are subscribers to these publications, just as a matter of culture.

As for what you're missing? If you weren't already a subscriber to the NYT, you probably aren't that interested in it. I find the NYT, especially editorials, to be extremely long-winded. This could have been summarized as "My opinion: MTA is a horrible employer that conditions my employment on coming to work when we don't have the sanitation and protective supplies or procedures that MTA tells us to recommend to our customers".

This article is an op-ed, not an editorial and only 1000 words

A Tweet can be long-winded; it's about the content.

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