MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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That was quick: Four lines of code is all it takes for The New York Times’ paywall to come tumbling down
By Donal on Fri, 03/25/2011 - 11:47am |The New York Times paywall is costing the newspaper $40-$50 million to design and construct, Bloomberg has reported.
And it can be defeated through four lines of Javascript.
... All NYTClean does is call four measly lines of Javascript that hide a couple <div>s and turn page scrolling back on. It barely even qualifies as a hack. But it allows you access to any New York Times story, even when you’re past the monthly limit. (I just tested it out with a Canadian proxy server — works just like it says.)
URL:
http://www.niemanlab.org/2011/03/that-was-quick-four-lines-of-code-is-all-it-takes-for-the-new-york-times-paywall-to-come-tumbling-down-2/
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