By: Bottle Imp
Deleting the query string isn’t the act in question though. The act is taking the information after deleting the query string. You can delete the query string as often as you want. Go ahead, on me. But...
View ArticleBy: Richard
Considering that it was the NYTimes that got me to drop javascripting to begin with, it’s nice to know that’s all it takes. However since they started charging for their web content, I thought it best...
View ArticleBy: cratermoon
Careful — wouldn’t that be a violation of the DMCA anti-circumvention provisions?
View ArticleBy: GreenJello
I suspect the whole paywall thing is not popular internally with any member of the Times staff, and this sort of poorly thought out and implemented approach is the result. I mean they have NO reason to...
View ArticleBy: billstewart
Yow! Are the NYT security folks reading this? On Friday I commented that the NYT paywall system had stopped bothering me without me doing anything, and today it tells me that I’ve read all my articles...
View ArticleBy: Anonymous
That’s doing it the hard way. There’s a delay before the paywall pops up over the web page. If you hit the stop button on your browser after the page loads, the paywall never pops up. If you don’t hit...
View ArticleBy: slamNo7
I have gradually realized more and more since it has been instituted that the looseness of the paywall is totally intentional. They let you see whatever you want if you really want to, with a slight...
View ArticleBy: Mantissa128
This argument cannot be won, methinks. There are two schools of thought about this, and of course the right-thinking people know which is correct. In the end though, it doesn’t matter. There is little...
View ArticleBy: GorillaBot
Perhaps the light security on the paywall is deliberate. Since there is no reasonable way to force people to pay for the content they consume, it only serves to remind those who won’t support the...
View ArticleBy: w000t
I’ve had a bookmarklet to quickly strip arguments from the URL for years. Does that make me a script kiddie? javascript:with(location)href=protocol+%22//%22+host+pathname
View ArticleBy: Anonymous
Meh, not worth it. I deleted the app from my iPhone and don’t click NYT links anymore. There’s plenty of other new sources out there.
View ArticleBy: Bottle Imp
Man, that was long. My appologies everyone. Here’s the tl:dr Theft of services. Creators get to decide how they ask to be paid for stuff, and if you don’t like their method, don’t buy what they create....
View ArticleBy: Bottle Imp
“For another, you’re talking about stealing from a distributor, when this is clearly about a content creator. For yet another, you’re calling it stealing, because you’re consciously trying to steer the...
View ArticleBy: Toby
I would guess that the feebleness of the paywall is a side-effect of wanting to expose most of their content to Google et al. (who aren’t fazed by javascript/css trickery).
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