How can I access New York Times articles without having to pay extra?

VPN
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This isn’t just for NYT. It’s for pretty much every news site that makes you buy a subscription if you want to go over their 3-article limit.

I am on the UCSD VPN, but I think there’s some other process you need to go through for this.

In the good old days when we were still on campus, I asked a librarian at Geisel how I could access these kinds of articles without having to pay extra, and she showed me how to do it. Those were good times, and the library staff were really helpful. God bless the good people who work at UCSD’s libraries.

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Here’s an information page / guide

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Legal? probably not. Ethical? probably not. Useful? you bet.

https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome

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If there’s a 3 article limit, you can just open an incognito window. The number you’ve currently checked is cached to your browser, so you could do that, or switch to a different browser

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Direct link to the guide: Home - Newspapers - LibGuides at University of California San Diego

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I think it’s legal, from a dialectical perspective. The full page is being sent to you, you are not somehow taking more than what is being given.

I’d argue it’s very ethical though, information should be free.

And I was just about to comment the same thing. It works great.

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Tldr, login to Factiva with UCSD VPN to see pretty much everything.