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How to read USA Today For Subscribers articles free

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Bypass USA Today paywall to read For Subscribers content with Archive.Today, Bypass Paywalls clean extension, Hover Paywall extension and spoof user agent.

Last Updated: June, 2025

Do you want to know how people could read USA Today FOR SUBSCRIBERS articles free without subscribing?

Forget about 12 Feet Ladder, 13 feet Ladder, private browsing, or by disabling JavaScript

Even though USA Today uses the soft paywall, but many of the usual technique do not work. 

This post is for informational purposes only.

I just curate all these tips found in the internet to explain how they could access this paywalled premium content.  

Welcome to another post from The DiGiztal Bypass Paywalls Tips series.

How to read USA Today For Subscribers articles free

This is a revised and updated post.

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

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

In other words, you cannot access these selected premium news stories.

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 $5 for the first  year.

read USA TODAY For Subscribers aricles free

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

Read USA Today For Subscribers articles free

  1. Archive.Today
  2. Bypass Paywalls Clean extension
  3. Hover Paywall extension
  4. Spoof user agent

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

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

1. Archive Today

You use the free archive site called Archive.Today, to get past its paywall.

One simple method is prepend its domain https://archive.ph/ to the article URL

For example, you want to access this blocked article, "Wrongly deported man not leaving El Salvador prison, Bukele says".

You add https://archive.ph/ to its URL.

It should looks like this:

https://archive.ph/https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/15/wrongly-deported-el-salvador-prison-the-excerpt/83096552007/

Press the "Enter" key and it opens the Archive.Today site.

If the article is till not archived its says "No result", then click "archive this url" link.

It opens another page, click the "Save" button and wait for it to finish archiving.

Now you can view this full unblocked article right there.

Find out more how to use Archive.Today to bypass paywalled articles for free.


2. Bypass Paywalls Clean extension

It's no surprise you can get around to read USA Today For Subscribers articles free. with this controversial paywall remover.

Besides this paywalled website, the Bypass Paywalls Clean by magnolia1234, can get through umpteen websites, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and many more. 

Just download and install the browser extension, and you can have unlimited access to the premium content.

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.


3. Hover Paywall extension  

This is a not popular browser extension, but it can block ads and bypass paywalls.

Again all you need to do is to download and install it to your browser,

The enabled the Bypass Paywalls" settings, and you can read USA Today For Subscribers webpages right away.

To know more, refer to this Hover Paywall guide


4. Spoof user agent

Websites generally want their content to be indexed by search engines (like Google), so people can find them.

So by pretending or mimicking to be Googlebot, the website let it into the locked content.

How to do it?

Read up, "How to spoof user agent as Googlebot to bypass paywall".


DISCLAIMER: This post is for educational purposes only. It aims to help you better understand web technologies and digital security. It does not endorse breaking website rules or illegal activity. Use responsibly; the author is not liable for misuse or legal issues.