YSK about the New York Times' onion service

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨spicytuna62@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨youshouldknow@lemmy.world⁩

https://open.nytimes.com/https-open-nytimes-com-the-new-york-times-as-a-tor-onion-service-e0d0b67b7482?gi=8704d3555568

Why? In their words:

The New York Times reports on stories all over the world, and our reporting is read by people around the world. Some readers choose to use Tor to access our journalism because they’re technically blocked from accessing our website; or because they worry about local network monitoring; or because they care about online privacy; or simply because that is the method that they prefer.

The benefit to you, o Western reader, is that you get to read the paper for free. No paywalls. Whether you respect the Times is irrelevant to this post. I’m only spreading awareness.

You will need Tor. Once you have it, their onion is found here:

nytimesn7cgmftshazwhfgzm37qxb44r64ytbb2dj3x62d2ll…

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nx2@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Okay I thought it was a the onion service after reading the headline and was confused a bit

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- spicytuna62@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I can see how that’d be a little confusing, especially if you’re just finding out about Tor lol
  
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  - JustZ@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I thought it was the dementor universe version of the Times where every article is rewritten as shameless satire and sarcasm.
    
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  - lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    The title would’ve been a lot clearer if it mentioned Tor.
    
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CorrodedCranium@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Several news outlets have something similar. The BBC has an Onion domain for example.

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- spicytuna62@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I did not know this. I never looked into it, mostly because the BBC isn’t kept behind a paywall lol Makes sense, though.
  
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Papanca@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Subscription wall

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- spicytuna62@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Hence, I provided a link to The Tor Project and the onion directly in the post.
  
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  - Papanca@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Which is what i used of course, and i still got the subscription wall
    
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  - morph3ous@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I also used the link you posted. It loaded but was still paywalled. :(
    
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morph3ous@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I used the .onion link using Onion Browser on iOS. The front page loaded fine, but articles were paywalled. This leads me to believe that it is not browsing through tor that is allowing the paywall bypass, but rather something Tor browser is doing.

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