Comment on YSK about the New York Times' onion service

• Papanca@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Which is what i used of course, and i still got the subscription wall

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  • spicytuna62@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The link provided with the title of the post isn’t necessary to click. I only put it there to provide a little bit of legitimacy to the post. It’s the NYT’s own domain hosting a page that provides the onion service and some info about it.

    If you have Tor installed on your machine, you can copy/paste the onion at the end of the post into Tor’s address bar once you’re connected to Tor. This should navigate directly to the NYT’s front page. You shouldn’t see the page I linked with the post.

    Even on Tor, if you use the clear web site provided in the link, yes, you will see the box asking for a subscription. You can click the x to get rid of it.

    I hope this helps out.

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    • CosmicTurtle@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Does the onion version require the use of JavaScript? That’s what stops most onion users from using onion versions of popular websites.

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    • Papanca@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Even on Tor, if you use the clear web site provided in the link, yes, you will see the box asking for a subscription. You can click the x to get rid of it.

      Ah, ok. I just noticed the popup. Of course i did click the link that was indicated in the post itself, not the title.

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• morph3ous@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I also used the link you posted. It loaded but was still paywalled. :(

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