Re: [Lynx-dev] For Blind Internet Users, the Fix Can Be Worse Than the Flaws (fwd)

[Karen Lewellen]

Sharing this, in case it misses the list.



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Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2022 21:26:57 +0200
From: Gisle Vanem <gvanem@online.no>
To: Karen Lewellen <klewellen@shellworld.net>
Subject: Re: [Lynx-dev] For Blind Internet Users,
    the Fix Can Be Worse Than the Flaws

>  Really?
>  When I followed the link in Lynx, I went right to the  article, no issues.

I do not use Lynx regularly. Very few people really do.
I'm a little nearsighted, but not blind :-)

I was just "helping" people not using Lynx (w/o JavaScript)
that they could download my scraped-off NYT article that
I saved as a PDF on my home-page.

These are the options to deal with such issues AFAICS:

1) Add a rule in Chrome etc. to block the use of JavaScript
    for https://www.nytimes.com only.

2.1) Go to a NYT link, right-click and Save as "only HTML".
      This gives a local .html file with no JavaScript blocking
      the content.

2.2) Optionally print the above local HTML-file as PDF-file using
      the Windows "Print to PDF-file" option which I used.
      But this does not include any pictures in an article.

Do you see other simple options to bypass a "pay-wall" like this?

There is this Chrome extension that I've not tried:
   https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome

"A web browser extension to help bypass paywalls for
  selected sites."

It mentions "New York Times" so it could be working.