Make WSJ & NYTimes Great Again:

Get around the paywalls for Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Financial Times and Bloomberg.

Now support Firefox and Microsoft Edge.

Supported Websites:

• Wall Street Journal
• New York Times
• Financial Times
• Bloomberg
• Washington Post
• Business Journals
• Philly.com
• Kleine Zeitung
• The Globe and Mail

Update in Jan 2018:

• Thank Scratch for adding Firefox and Edge support of this extension! See this pull request for details. Also add kleinezeitung.at, bizjournals.com, theglobeandmail.com and philly.com

Update in Oct 2017:

• Thank hotcap for adding Washington Post to our list. See this pull request for details.

Update in Aug 2017:

• Thank apank for adding Bloomberg to our list.
• Thank strafer for creating an issue that New York Times Cooking section has separate paywall. We fixed it by just injecting CSS to the pages to hide the pop up dialog and still keep JavaScript working as expected. See this pull request for details.

Update in Apr 2017:

• Fact: WSJ has an advertisement popping up every single time we read an article, too much!
• Idea: After checking their code, I find the pop-up ad is triggered by a javascript file, so let's just block it, using the same logic that we blocked the NYTimes gateway javascript.
• Extra: The pop-up ad will stay disappeared as long as the WSJ developers do not change the javascript names, I am sure they will at some point. So this is a practical but not ideal solution for right now.

Update in Jan 2017:

• Fact: WSJ has blocked https://www.google.com referer randomly on desktop.

• Idea: I changed the referer to facebook or twitter, both are working great again:). The logic is that we can read the full WSJ article if we click through a twitter or facebook link of the article. So far they have not blocked these referers.

• Extra: Add Financial Times www.ft.com to our list. FT and WSJ are using the same logic for paywall, so it can be accessed in the same way.

How It Works as in July 2016:

For Wall Street Journal:

• Fact: WSJ full content can be accessed if the content link is clicked from google search result page.

• Idea: Set the following headers for the link you click:

  • Referer: https://www.google.com
  • Cookie: <NONE>

• Reference: The logic is copied from wsj-walljumper

For New York Times:

• Fact: NYTimes pops up subscription window and blocks content view after you read 10 pieces/month, clearly they use Javascript to do the trick.

• Idea: Block those Javascript files from downloading :)

• Sugggestion For NYTimes Developers: concatenate the minified Javascript files, and maybe attach a random string in your concatenated Javascript filename?

Interested in development process?

• I wrote a blog How to bypass WSJ and NYTimes paywalls? about the details on my website.

Want to contribute?

• You are welcome to use the same logic to get around sites you are interested in, if it works, submit a Pull Request, and I'd love to merge it. Thank you!

Install Instructions for Chrome

• click "clone or download", download zip. The downloaded file is an unpacked chrome extension, unzip it into a directory.
• Visit chrome://extensions (via omnibox or menu -> Tools -> Extensions).
• Enable Developer mode by ticking the checkbox in the upper-right corner.
• Click on the "Load unpacked extension..." button.
• Select the directory containing your unpacked extension.
• Reference: How to install an unpacked chrome extension

Install Instructions for Firefox

• Open Firefox
• Enter "about:debugging" in the URL bar
• Click "Load Temporary Add-on"
• Open the extension's directory and select manifest.json inside the extension.
• Read Temporary installation in Firefox For details.

Install Instructions for Microsoft Edge

• Read Adding, moving, and removing extensions for Microsoft Edge

License

This is free and unencumbered software released into the public domain.

Anyone is free to copy, modify, publish, use, compile, sell, or distribute this software, either in source code form or as a compiled binary, for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial, and by any means.

For more information, please refer to http://unlicense.org/