TomSea wrote:
"NY Times has a paywall so I'm not sure if readers can get the whole article"
There's no paywall there if you know how to get around it.
And I'm going to teach you folks how to break that paywall down right now.
When you visit the NYT site (as when you visit many if not most sites on the net), it "sets a cookie" which seems to have a "counter" that records your number of visits.
So, you get (what looks like) 4 "visits" before the web site will refuse to "serve you" the requested article -- because the NYT cookie on your computer has a "full counter".
But... all you have to do to defeat the counter is to DELETE the cookie.
I'm on a Mac -- the best OS by which to browse the net -- but the techniques I use are certainly there for Windows users as well, or at least I think they are.
What you need is some kind of "cookie manager" for your browsers.
On the Mac, I use one called, simply, "Cookie".
With a cookie manager, you can set it up to delete ALL cookies when you quit the browser (or at other intervals), but you can also set it to KEEP certain ones that you want kept.
For instance, I keep the briefingroom cookie around, because it has my login info in it.
Friends, do what I've described, and you won't be bothered by "you have to subscribe before you can read us" warnings -- at least on most sites.
There are some sites, like the Wall Street Journal, that have a true "PAYwall" where you have to pay to subscribe in order to read.
And all of those -- I don't bother with. They can kiss me where the sun don't shine.
And while I'm at it...
Those pesky websites that won't let you in until you turn your adblocker off?
It's easy to defeat most of them, too.
Just disable Javascript, and reload the page.
In most cases -- not all, but most -- that defeats the anti-ad-blocker warning, and you can still read the content you want to...
