YSK about the New York Times' Tor onion service
YSK about the New York Times' Tor onion service
Updated: February 12, 2022
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 theyโre 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:
https://www.nytimesn7cgmftshazwhfgzm37qxb44r64ytbb2dj3x62d2lljsciiyd.onion/
Okay I thought it was a the onion service after reading the headline and was confused a bit
Several news outlets have something similar. The BBC has an Onion domain for example.
I did not know this. I never looked into it, mostly because the BBC isn't kept behind a paywall lol Makes sense, though.
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.
One experiment might be to go to https://nytimes.com using Tor Browser and see if it also still bypasses the paywall. If my theory is correct, it just mightโฆ
Subscription wall
Hence, I provided a link to The Tor Project and the onion directly in the post.