# Three Tricks To Read  Articles Behind A PayWall

A paywall is a commonly-used tool that allows publications and websites to restrict content to paying readers, subscribed readers or readers that have upgraded only.

Paywall articles are those articles that require a subscription before you can access or read them further. Most news articles and exclusive content require in-app purchases to access them.

So let's get to see these tricks.

### 🌟 Disable JavaScript in Your Browser

Want to get past a newspaper paywall? To disable JavaScript in Google Chrome, open the browser and click on the three vertical dots on the right top corner of the screen.

From the drop-down menu, go to Settings > Privacy > Content or Site settings. If you can’t find the site settings, type "JavaScript" in the settings search bar (at the top). Click on "site settings" from the search results. 

![image.png](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1658481163472/2Iy2csEFV.png align="left")

Scroll to find JavaScript. Click on JavaScript, and click on "don’t allow sites to use JavaScript." You can also just add a specific website to the “not allowed to use JavaScript” list.

![image.png](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1658481214439/l9gnXLYdO.png align="left")

### 🌟 Send Article Links To Your Twitter DM (Direct Message)
Some sites like Medium detect the source origin(referer) and they are set to automatically allow social media referred posts. 

![image.png](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1658480918902/eHbVPF7ue.png align="left")

After sending them to your inbox(DM), open them directly from there and boom you will have your article. 

Try this trick with [this article](https://medium.com/personal-growth/9-uncomfortable-truths-you-should-accept-early-in-life-7f61c13afdd1) by Sinem Gunel.

### 🌟 Try Incognito Mode
Incognito mode runs in a separate tab from your normal Chrome tabs. If you have an Incognito tab open and you open another one, your private browsing session.

* On your computer, open Chrome.
* At the top right, click More. New Incognito Window.
* A new window appears. In the top corner, check for the Incognito icon.

Paste [this article](https://medium.com/personal-growth/9-uncomfortable-truths-you-should-accept-early-in-life-7f61c13afdd1) there

### 🌟 Summary
There are other methods you could try like getting a chrome extension, manually removing or deleting the Paywall, using a VPN service, resetting site cookies, etc. These methods vary on the type of paywall implemented.

You could also try different methods or a blend of these until you achieve what you want.

### 🌟 Conclusion
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