Need access to NYT article

October 18, 2022 12:17 PM

I very much want to read an article in the New York Times. I do not have a subscription. Any thoughts on how someone in Europe might be able to access it? Heading to bed now, so can’t respond to questions immediately. Here is the URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/17/health/clitoris-sex-doctors-surgery.html?
posted by Bella Donna to Computers & Internet (16 answers total)

Best answer: I memailed you a link to it.
posted by Ftsqg at 12:21 PM on October 18, 2022 [4 favorites]

If you have Pocket, saving an article will usually bypass the paywall.
posted by kevinbelt at 12:22 PM on October 18, 2022 [1 favorite]

Best answer: You can drop nearly any NY times link into Archive.ph and it will already be archived. In this case.
posted by jacquilynne at 12:26 PM on October 18, 2022 [20 favorites]

Sounds like you're covered here, but another option for future: NYT subscribers have the option to provide free access to a certain number of articles a month as 'gifts'. So if you know anyone who has a subscription, and they're not giving away their gift articles right and left, they can probably quite easily generate a special link to an article that will let you access it for free for some period of time - I think it's a couple of weeks or a month. Long enough to save/print it if you want to, for sure.
posted by Stacey at 12:37 PM on October 18, 2022 [6 favorites]

I'm a NY Times subscriber - always happy to gift an article if needed (I'm assuming that may be what Ftsqg already did).
posted by gudrun at 12:47 PM on October 18, 2022 [3 favorites]

you may be able to access it if you have a library card
posted by brujita at 12:54 PM on October 18, 2022 [7 favorites]

I was hoping someone would make a post on the blue about that article...
posted by mareli at 1:53 PM on October 18, 2022 [3 favorites]

I used the archive link posted above to read the article. Thank you for drawing my attention to it - a wild state of affairs.
posted by Lawn Beaver at 1:56 PM on October 18, 2022 [2 favorites]

Best answer: I already made a post on the blue today, but here's a gift link.
posted by box at 2:41 PM on October 18, 2022 [2 favorites]

The NYT's paywall uses javascript. If you turn off javascript you can read most any article.
posted by joeyh at 2:46 PM on October 18, 2022 [1 favorite]

Best answer: You can get around paywalls by going

right click

save link

as examplename.html

and then going into your downloads file to read it.
posted by chariot pulled by cassowaries at 4:04 PM on October 18, 2022 [3 favorites]

I just tend to click 'stop' on the browser during page load just as the text is loaded but before the paywall - this usually allows me to scroll through the article - worked here for me but maybe varies across devices.
posted by lethologues at 10:54 PM on October 18, 2022 [1 favorite]

Others have resolved the initial question, but I wanted to thank you for leading me to this article. That first story is just...wow. You know how my lichen sclerosus was diagnosed? By a doctor taking a ten second look. Even when cancer is a possibility (a small proportion of LS sufferers will go on to develop genital cancers, though usually not until later in life), excisional biopsy is supposed to be the standard in vulvar diagnosis, not a punch biopsy. And on the CLITORIS? What in the name of holy fuck. Appalling.
posted by desert outpost at 11:52 PM on October 18, 2022 [2 favorites]

Response by poster: Each and every one of you has made me a WINNER. Thanks, y'all! All excellent responses, which are most appreciated!
posted by Bella Donna at 12:28 PM on October 19, 2022

Best answer: Bypass Paywalls Clean. There is also one for Chrome.
posted by Splunge at 2:21 PM on October 19, 2022 [1 favorite]

Best answer: Archive.ph is great, and if you don’t find the article on there, you can add it to be archived!
posted by ellieBOA at 11:52 PM on October 19, 2022 [1 favorite]