# NYT workaround
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-workaround/628332
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [July 15, 2012, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-workaround/628332 "2012-07-15T19:13:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2012, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-workaround/628332/1 "2012-07-15T19:13:42Z")
A bit of information for our poorer Dopers who like to read the NYT. They have a limit on how many articles you can read without subscribing: Go to Chrome options, advanced, manage exceptions, clear site data, enter “nyt” - delete all those cookies, and you’re back in the game. You’re welcome.
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### Author:  [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2012, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-workaround/628332/2 "2012-07-15T20:10:52Z")
You can just delete the query strings from the URLs you get when the NYT says you’re over your limit.
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### Author:  [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2012, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-workaround/628332/3 "2012-07-15T21:01:05Z")
> [@friedo](#):
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> You can just delete the query strings from the URLs you get when the NYT says you’re over your limit.
Or that. 😃
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### Author:  [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2012, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-workaround/628332/4 "2012-07-16T00:55:58Z")
I don’t know what the deal with NYT is, but I too have noticed that I can read all the articles I want, and have never run into that monthly article limit.
As I’ve mentioned several times before, I run my browser in “maximally crippled mode”, with JavaScript disabled. I also purge ALL cookies, and pretty much everything else, regularly. And I read a LOT of NYT stuff. Haven’t gotten turned away yet.
(Shhhh! Let’s keep this real quiet, shall we?)
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### Author:  [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2012, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-workaround/628332/5 "2012-07-16T01:21:57Z")
> [@Senegoid](#):
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> I don’t know what the deal with NYT is, but I too have noticed that I can read all the articles I want, and have never run into that monthly article limit.
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> As I’ve mentioned several times before, I run my browser in “maximally crippled mode”, with JavaScript disabled. I also purge ALL cookies, and pretty much everything else, regularly.
That’s probably why. On other computers, I just delete the strings.
It also isn’t a problem on most library computers.
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### Author:  [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2012, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-workaround/628332/6 "2012-07-16T07:11:38Z")
> [@Senegoid](#):
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> I don’t know what the deal with NYT is, but I too have noticed that I can read all the articles I want, and have never run into that monthly article limit.
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> As I’ve mentioned several times before, I run my browser in “maximally crippled mode”, with JavaScript disabled. I also purge ALL cookies, and pretty much everything else, regularly. And I read a LOT of NYT stuff. Haven’t gotten turned away yet.
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> (Shhhh! Let’s keep this real quiet, shall we?)
Yeah, the NYT uses a Javascript hack to limit your viewing, by overlaying the paywall dialog _after_ your browser has downloaded and rendered the entire article. The Javascript itself is triggered by an extra param on the URL query string. So deleting that param or turning Javascript off will make it go away.
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### Author:  [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2012, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-workaround/628332/7 "2012-07-16T08:06:36Z")
> [@friedo](#):
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> You can just delete the query strings from the URLs you get when the NYT says you’re over your limit.
Why don’t you just reroute the anti-protons through the main deflector dish?
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### Author:  [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2012, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-workaround/628332/8 "2012-07-16T08:26:17Z")
> [@Zebra](#):
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> Why don’t you just reroute the anti-protons through the main deflector dish?
Because the warp core antimatter reserves are depleted.
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### Author:  [@Steken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steken)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2012, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-workaround/628332/9 "2012-07-16T10:06:55Z")
Copy the article’s URL, go to [unblocked.org](http://unblocked.org), paste it in – and _voilà_, unlimited NYT reading.
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### Author:  [@Indian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indian)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2012, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-workaround/628332/10 "2012-07-16T10:23:57Z")
> [@Chefguy](#):
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> A bit of information for our poorer Dopers who like to read the NYT. They have a limit on how many articles you can read without subscribing: Go to Chrome options, advanced, manage exceptions, clear site data, enter “nyt” - delete all those cookies, and you’re back in the game. You’re welcome.
How is this different from emptying the cache? Is it that you have to do it only once?
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### Author:  [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2012, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-workaround/628332/11 "2012-07-16T12:40:51Z")
And to think I’ve been doing it the old-fashioned way all this time and PAYING for the New York Times!