T. S. Eliot’s Muse

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Post by apollinaire » Tue, Dec 08, 2020, 5:06 AM UTC

T. S. Eliot’s Muse
newyorker.com

Re: T. S. Eliot’s Muse

#2

Post by barrabas » Tue, Dec 08, 2020, 7:36 PM UTC

Is there a paywall bypass that works for New Yorker articles now?

Re: T. S. Eliot’s Muse

#3

Post by gabagool » Tue, Dec 08, 2020, 8:14 PM UTC

barrabas wrote: post #2

Is there a paywall bypass that works for New Yorker articles now?

This may sound very low-tech, but if you stop loading the page as soon as you open it, you should be fine. For me, that's refreshing the page and spamming the ESC button.

Re: T. S. Eliot’s Muse

#4

Post by samizdis » Tue, Dec 08, 2020, 8:18 PM UTC

I can read it just fine with javascript disabled, except that I get only text and no pictures.

Edited to add: I also cleared cookies etc.

Re: T. S. Eliot’s Muse

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Post by gabagool » Tue, Dec 08, 2020, 8:24 PM UTC

samizdis wrote: post #4

I can read it just fine with javascript disabled, except that I get only text and no pictures. Edited to add: I also cleared cookies etc.

Oddly enough, if I disable javascript and/or cookies, I get a completely blank white page instead. These tricks do work on a lot of other sites, though.

Re: T. S. Eliot’s Muse

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Post by barrabas » Tue, Dec 08, 2020, 8:37 PM UTC

gabagool wrote: post #3

barrabas wrote: post #2

Is there a paywall bypass that works for New Yorker articles now?

This may sound very low-tech, but if you stop loading the page as soon as you open it, you should be fine. For me, that's refreshing the page and spamming the ESC button.

Holy shit it works!

Re: T. S. Eliot’s Muse

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Post by paulclinger » Tue, Dec 08, 2020, 8:47 PM UTC

barrabas wrote: post #2

Is there a paywall bypass that works for New Yorker articles now?

You can disable Scripts loaded from www.newyorker.com in uMatrix.

Re: T. S. Eliot’s Muse

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Post by Apocryphon » Tue, Dec 08, 2020, 9:11 PM UTC

> He wanted her to be remembered always as the Beatrice to his Dante, the moral force behind his religious conversion, and the inspiration behind some of his most beautiful poems.

And the Regine to his Søren, perhaps.

Re: T. S. Eliot’s Muse

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Post by samizdis » Tue, Dec 08, 2020, 9:18 PM UTC

gabagool wrote: post #5

samizdis wrote: post #4

I can read it just fine with javascript disabled, except that I get only text and no pictures. Edited to add: I also cleared cookies etc.

Oddly enough, if I disable javascript and/or cookies, I get a completely blank white page instead. These tricks do work on a lot of other sites, though.

I'm using Brave Version 1.17.75 Chromium: 87.0.4280.88 (Official Build) (x86_64) (with uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger enabled) on macOS Catalina 10.15.7 - if that helps.

Just checked on my Windows 10 machine, and Brave, similarly configured (disabled javascript, same add-ons) also displays the New Yorker article - again, text only.

Re: T. S. Eliot’s Muse

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Post by oh_sigh » Tue, Dec 08, 2020, 10:12 PM UTC

paulclinger wrote: post #7

barrabas wrote: post #2

Is there a paywall bypass that works for New Yorker articles now?

You can disable Scripts loaded from www.newyorker.com in uMatrix.

You can also do that in basically any vanilla user agent (for chrome, click the lock in the URL bar -> site settings -> disable javascript -> refresh page).

I'm not a zealot, but I like to browse with javascript default to blocked, and only if I notice a site not behaving correctly will I enable javascript. Side benefit is killing most begging-for-subscription overlays.