Continue reading New York Times Online for free

I get that printed newspapers and the whole industry is going through a tough time with advertisers, to the left and right and their subscriber base shrinks, but I'm still not sold on the idea of charging a fee for access to news online as a way to keep the news industry. ?Nevertheless, the New York Times made a decision to start charging for access to their online news and features, and which entered into force on Monday afternoon. ?You'll still be able to read up to 20 articles per month for free, if you arrived at the New York Times Web site through a search engine such as Google, but if you're remote website directly you won't have that option. Has always been my motto, "Where there's a will, there's a way", and in this case, if you're willing to do some finagling, you can still read most of the contents of the New York Times Online for free. ?If you are lazy and extra cash to justify a subscription, then by all means, get a subscription. ?But if you're like me, a casual reader of the New York Times, which probably has more than 20 articles per month, but not enough to justify paying $ 35 every four weeks, then you want to check out some of these work-arounds to help you reach your destination reading New York Times Online for free:

New York Times loves social media and allows you to effectively use it, with more than 250 Twitter account, which covers almost every topic and blog and every writer. If you haven't signed up to Twitter, now is probably a good time to do so. ?Clicking the Twitter link will take you to the full article, without disturbing you pay. ?But it's not only the New York Times official channels, which will let you full access to the article by clicking any links on this site will put you. ?The same trick will work on Facebook. ?New York Times doesn't want to stop people from large or an interesting story to share with their friends and acquaintances through paywall, so now it's an easy way to get around it.

Another way to beat the system involves using the NYTClean tool. ?Of course this would require extra click for each article, but you will achieve the ultimate goal of reading the New York Times for free online. ?To get started, point your browser to this page on the blog Euri .ca, and then click and hold on the link NYTClean, located in the middle of the page and drag it to your bookmarks toolbar. ?Each time you click page on the Web site of the New York Times, ask you to cough up some cash to continue reading, just got the NYTClean a bookmark in your toolbar. Magically it works, and you will be directed to the free version of this article.

If the bookmarklet above sounds too difficult or too time consuming (not really), or you simply wish to automate the process of obtaining the free version of the article, the New York Times, each time you hit the page we ask you to stop, Subscribe user scenario isthe doctor ordered. ?Install the user script in the New York Times Paywall from UserScripts.org. ?Firefox users, you must first install Greasemonkey and then click the install button on the script page. ?Chrome users just need to click the install button, while Safari users can specify user scripts for Greasekit. ?For Internet Explorer add-in should Trixie help you manage user scripts.

Chrome users have another option to automate their free access to the New York Times online content. Introducing Smasher Paywall the New York Times a browser extension. ?Just follow this link if you use chrome, and then click "Install" and "ll be good to go.

New York Times checks your IP address to find out, how often do you visit their website and read their articles. ?So you can use different computers at different locations to read their article, but it's probably quite a hassle. ?Instead of physically moving yourself, simply route your Web requests through a proxy server. ?There are a number of free proxy sites on the Internet, such as HideMyAss.com, which mask your real IP and make it appear that access the site from other countries.

This method still limits you to a few, but you'll get much more free content than you would if you just went straight to the New York Times website.

If you stumbled upon any other ways to circumvent the restrictions of the New York Times on free access, please share in comments.

Julie McCormick as, a freelance writer and co-owner of the Cleveland leader, visit the Technorati Top 100. She is married and mother of two small children. You'll often find her playing around with the latest tech gadgets, messing around with the code or writing storm. She has a Bachelor's degree in Visual Communications and spent nearly a decade working in one of the largest public libraries in the United States before calling it quits, embarking on a new path.

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