Nate Silver addicts NYT has taken down its pay fire wall

[flamingdem]

temporarily

[Cha]

1. KNR

[krawhitham]

2. I go to 538 multiple times a day and have never had a pay wall issue

[Rowdyboy]

3. Wish I could say the same....

I've missed many articles I wanted to read because I can't pay them.

[flamingdem]

4. I haven't had the problem yet either

but many here say they do. I wonder if it's because I usually click through a DU or twitter link.

[gravity]

5. Just press the stop button

on the browser before the page finishes loading.

[Warren DeMontague]

6. cough

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[littlemissmartypants]

8. ; )

[flamingdem]

15. Thanks Warren!

[Revolutionary Girl]

7. If you use Firefox,

just get the popular "NoScript" extension. It blocks websites from running scripts unless you give them permission. It works on the NYT site, and also protects you from pop-ups, malicious code, etc.

[renate]

10. thanks!

I really like the NYT and would love to be able to afford the fee. I think it's totally fair for them to charge for content if that's the business model they choose to follow. So I'll try not to abuse this information, but sometimes there's that eleventh article a month that I really want to read....

Thank you!

[MFM008]

9. yeah it did

you could only see what loads when you click on, if you wanted to read more they wouldnt let you see the rest of the column w/o pay.

[renate]

11. thanks!

I love DU and the sharing of information here!

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

12. Forgot about that. I used to get it when trying to read articles on the site, but have not once

encountered it when checking the 538 page for the past month or so.

[blue-kite]

13. Great news... although when I switched from laptop to ipad, I got through anyway. Cheers

[NCLefty]

14. So easily gotten around anyway

I use the Twitter bypass code, which you tack onto the end of any URL after the last slash, replacing any existing codes which would start with a question mark:

?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Example: http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/29/oct-28-in-swing-states-a-predictable-election/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Seeeeeecrets! :p