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Comment by vbtemp | Hacker News Reader

With the paywall up [1], I only have access to a couple NYTimes articles per month. I was horrified to discover this was just a link to some stupid op-ed by David Brooks. What a waste. I'm completely sick of all the hot-air professional bullshit-artist columnists. If this linked to a Tom Friedman article, I'd have completely lost it.

[1] I know there are a lot of exceptions, I'm not sure if this will count against my monthly limit if I went to the page via this HN link.

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The easiest exception to the paywall is incognito mode.

Here in non-USA-ia, there is no such paywall. Maybe visiting their site through an alien proxy could give you unlimmited access. Then again, why bother as more and more 'articles' as you accurately observe have become short and easy opinion pieces.

Where has in-depth research journalism gone?

(I would really like to know and am willing to pay for quality content.)

They keep track of how many pages you've read in cookies. Delete your cookies. No reason for brash hostility.

Just use this bookmarklet:

  javascript:(function()%7Bvar%20s%3Ddocument.createElement(%27script%27)%3Bs.setAttribute(%27src%27,%27http://toys.euri.ca/nyt.js%27)%3Bdocument.getElementsByTagName(%27head%27)%5B0%5D.appendChild(s)%3B%7D)()%3B

To avoid the NYT paywall, just append "?_r=1" to the URL (perhaps removing other "?..." stuff).

[It seems too simple to last, but has worked great for quite a while...]

Open the link in porn mode.

you can easily bypass the paywall with a little javascript.

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