If someone could be so kind as to paste-bin this, I'd be grateful. The NYTimes paywall has been in full force lately (probably due to me being on uni IP?) considering that I rarely visit the site.
Opening in Chrome Incognito mode and stripping all URL params lets you read the article w/o the paywall modal.
It used to be if you simply stripped out the URL parameter you could read the article which does not work anymore. Did some noodling, deleted all my cookies for nytimes.com, stripped the params and it still brings up the modal. After some inspecting I discovered its Local Storage & Session Storage where they're saving your tracking info, not IP address.
It used to be if you simply stripped out the URL parameter you could read the article which does not work anymore. Did some noodling, deleted all my cookies for nytimes.com, stripped the params and it still brings up the modal. After some inspecting I discovered its Local Storage & Session Storage where they're saving your tracking info, not IP address.