I wouldn't be willing to disable my vpn for the nyt so thanks for confirming that it wouldn't have made a difference. It appears that they now block everyone who doesn't let javascript freely do whatever it wants to fingerprint you or whatever. I'll not miss them too much.
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I thought bypass paywall was dead?
Got the same message since last Wednesday I think, not by trying to access articles, just playing their daily gameson mobile (Firefox)
I got this just the other day. Turned off the paywall blocker I forgot I installed and it loaded fine after.
How so you bypass paywall?
I use FOSS browser and have antifingerprinting enabled. I get this constantly. I think it also might have something to do with blocking the tracking parts of the url directs.
For your web browser, Add this to your uBlock Origin block list:
lemmy.dbzer0.com##.title:has-text(/nytimes.com/)
You can add additional sites, separated by pipes like this::
lemmy.dbzer0.com##.title:has-text(/nytimes.com|theverge.com|404media.co/)
(Change the leading url to that of your own instance)
This will turn this:

into this:

So you don't accidentally get interested in a bullshit paywalled article.
I've been thinking about subscribing to a news site. Similar to email, I would rather pay than see the propaganda. 404 was one I was considering. I have several Ghost publications I'm watching to figure out which one I want.
The Ublock codes will be useful, though. Thanks for sharing!
It is not just paywall, New York Times is full of propaganda just like CNN.
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