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How to read USA Today For Subscribers articles free 2024

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Last Updated: October 2024

Find out how to read USA Today FOR SUBSCRIBERS articles free with this method.

Welcome to another useful content from the series, DiGiztal Bypass Paywalls Tips.

This is a revised and updated post (2024).

On July 7th, 2021 USA Today announced that its premium content aka FOR SUBSCRIBERS will go behind a paywall.

Does USA Today have a paywall?

Yes, USA Today paywall is already up and blocking some of its premium stories.

These blocked article is indicated with a blue color "FOR SUBSCRIBERS", 

In other words, you cannot access these selected premium news stories or "FOR SUBSCRIBERS" items anymore.

When you click on USA Today FOR SUBSCRIBERS news story, it shows a couple of lines, and the text starts fading off, followed with this remark:

Subscribe to continue reading, Get unlimited digital access to USA TODAY for $1 for the first 6 months.

There is a "Subscribe Now" button.

Well, you can still access USA TODAY For Subscribers articles free, by unblocking its paywalls extension.

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The tips below can bypass USA TODAY paywall for both Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome.


NOTE: If you have ad blocker detector problem with USA Today, install this Ad Accelerator extension.


Read USA Today For Subscribers articles free

  • Archive.Today
  • Bypass Paywalls Clean extension

Previously you can read all the "For Subscribers" articles from the Google cached page or with the aid of the popular Bypass Paywalls extension.

Currently there two workable ways to get around USA TODAY paywall in order to access its "FOR SUBSCRIBERS" news reports.

They work for both Firefox and Chrome browsers.

1. Archive Today

You use the free archive site called Archive.Today, which stores snapshots of web pages.

If the article which you want to read which has already archived, it would prompt you that it is available.

You can read right away. 

But if it is not archived, then you have to wait for awhile for it to archive it, before you can read it.

This is what you do:

Go to Archive.Today.

Paste the locked For Subscribers article URL in the space provided under "My url is alive and I want to archive its content".

Bypass paywall With Archive.Today

Next click the "save" button.

If that article has already archived, you can read it straight away.

But if it is not archived, wait for it to finish archiving, then you can view the complete article.

Archive.Today extension

For convenience, install the Archive.Today browser extension for Chrome browsers.

Click here for Chrome Archive Today Extension.

After you have installed the extension, you can see its its icon (globe with the share symbol) at the toolbar.

USA Today For Subscribers paywall bypass

These are three (3) ways how to use the Archive Today extension to access USA TODAY For Subscribers articles.

Click on Archive.Today icon

When you come to the blocked article, click on the Archive Today icon at the toolbar.

It will take you to the Archive Today site.

If the article has already archived, then you can read it there and then.

If not, then it says "No results" and you have to archive it.

Archive Today Bypass Paywalls

Click on article text

When you are at the blocked article page, click anywhere on the article text .

A context menu pops up, then click on "Search archive.today for page".

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Similarly it takes you to the Archive Today site. 

Again if the page have already been archived, you can see it right there.

If it is still not archived, then archive it, so you can view it.

Right click on article title

The third way is when you are the USA Today homepage, or at the search engine results pages.

Right click on the article title.

A context menu box pops up, move your mouse cursor from "Archive" to "Archive link" and "Search link".

Click on any of the two options.

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When you click on the "Archive link", and if the article is already archived, you can read it straight away.

If not, automatically it will start loading and archived it for you.

When you click on the "Search link", and if the article is already archived, you can see it right there.

But if the article is still not archived, it says "No results".

You have to click on the hyperlink "archive this url", then click the "save" button.

Then wait for it to archive it.

NOTE: Mozilla Firefox has removed Archive.Today extension from its store.

But you can use this similar One-Click Today.Archive extension.


2. Bypass Paywalls Clean extension

You can also use this popular Bypass Paywalls Clean browser extension to read USA Today For Subscribers articles free.

For Chrome users, follow this how to install bypass paywalls clean extension for chrome tutorial.

For Firefox users, follow this how to install bypass paywalls clean extension for firefox tutorial.

These are two ways how to read USA Today FOR SUBSCRIBERS articles free.


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