If you ever try to read New York Times articles there are several ways to get around it. For instance, you can try to read it in incognito mode or you can try to read it from the NYT Twitter feed. Once upon a time there also used to be a bookmarklet which would make a New York TImes article readable even if you had gone beyond the 10 articles per month limit but the bookmarklet stopped working a while ago (early this year, maybe?).
I thought having a working bookmarklet might be nice so I looked into making one. I found an article on modifying the current URL on the browser to append an arbitrary string. I copied that bookmarklet and, since adding "?dog=Fido&cat=Mittens" didn't seem particularly useful to me, modified it to change the NYT URL so as to give it the form of a URL originating from the NYT Twitter account (it adds "?partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytimes" to the end of the URL). I also added "&pagewanted=all" because I like to read web newspaper articles as one page but it can be safely taken out.
To use, just drag the bookmarklet unto your bookmarks bar.
- The New York Times fix with the "&pagewanted=all": NYT-fix
- The New York Times fix without the "&pagewanted=all": NYT-fix
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