Do you want to know how to read Washington Times free online with these easy ways?
In fact you can easily get around Washington Times paywall, without having to be a paid subscriber.
You don't even have to install any browser extension to your Firefox or Chrome to access The Washington Times free.
There are a ways where you just tinker with the article URLs, or just the "Escape button to get past the Washington Post paywall.
If I am not wrong, Washington Times has updated its paywall.
Currently I think you can read a few complimentary articles, then when you hit the paywall, it says:
You have reached your limit of free articles. To continue subscribe now.
How to read Washington Times free online
Here are a couple of methods to read unlimited The Washington Times articles free right away.
All these tips work for both Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome.
1. Google cached page
MOZILLA FIREFOX BROWSER:
You can read the all The Washington Times articles which are readily available from the Google cached pages.
This is all you need to do:
1. Go to The Washington Times homepage.
2. Click on any article which you want to read.
3. The article is blocked by its paywall.
4. Ignore it, go to the Firefox browser address bar at the top of the page.
5. Add cache: in front of the article URL.
6. For example the article URL is:
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/oct/10/signs-point-ground-war-gaza-scale-hamas-atrocities/
7. After adding cache: to the URL, it looks like this:
cache:https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/oct/10/signs-point-ground-war-gaza-scale-hamas-atrocities/
8. Press on the "Enter" key, and it would take you to the Google cached page.
9. Now you can read the The Washington Times article without being blocked.
2. Block cookies
This second trick is even better.You just set it up once for both Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome browsers.
From there, you can continue reading unlimited The Washington Times articles.
The idea is you set up both browsers to stop or block the cookies.
This is what you do:
MOZILLA FIREFOX BROWSER:
1. Go to your Mozilla Firefox browser.
2. Click on "Open menu" (three horizontal lines icon) at the top right hand corner of your computer screen.
3. It drops down the context menu.
4. Click on "Settings" and a page appears.
5. Next click on "Privacy & Security" on the left side of the page.
6. Scroll down a little bit until you see "Cookies and Site Data".
7. Click on "Manage Exceptions..." button.
8. A box pops up, titled "Exceptions - Cookies and Site Data".
9. In the space below "Address of website", paste or type in:
https://www.washingtontimes.com
10. Click on the "Block" button.
11. You can see The Washington Times domain listed under "Website" and its "Status" as "Block".
12. Finally click the "Save Changes" button.
Now you access as many free articles as you want from https://www.washingtontimes.com.
GOOGLE CHROME BROWSER:
1. Go to Google Chrome browser.
2. Click on the three small dots (Customize and control Google Chrome) and the context menu pops up.
3. Click on "Settings".
4. When you come to settings page, click on "Privacy and security".
5. Now click on "Cookies and other site data".
6. Scroll down to the last option "Sites that never use cookies".
7. Click "Add" button
8. A box pops up for you to add the site domain.
9. Type [*.]washingtontimes.com
10. Now go back to The Washington Times homepage, and start reading all its articles without being blocked anymore.
3. Reader view/Reader mode
This is another easy way to bypass The Washington Times paywall with the browser tool.The Reader View function is readily available in Firefox browser.
Another advantage is the Reader View gives you a clutter-free page.
It strips away buttons, ads, background images, and videos.
MOZILLA FIREFOX BROWSER:
For Firefox, it is located at the right hand side of the address bar.
The small gray color icon is a symbol of a page with lines.
1. This is what you do:
2. When you come to the blocked article, click on the gray color icon.
3. It changes to blue color, and instantly the blocked article will reload.
4. Now the full article appears without any being obstructed by the paywall pop-up.
GOOGLE CHROME BROWSER:
How to enable Chrome reader mode
If your Google Chrome still does not have Reader Mode, then this is how you do it.
1. Paste the following line to the address bar of your Chrome and it goes to the page where you can enable it.
chrome://flags/#enable-reader-mode
2. Click on the drop down menu, and select "Enabled".
3. Click the button at the bottom to relaunch your browser.
4. Now, your Chrome has Reader Mode enabled.
5. You can see its gray color icon of a book with three lines at the address bar.
How to use Chrome reader mode
1. When you come to the blocked article, click on the small gray color icon at the toolbar.
2. The gray color icon will change to blue color, and the blocked article now appears in full.
3. The advantage of using Reader Mode, it just only show you that particular article.
4. It is clutter-free without all the other content around.
4. New private window/new incognito window
For this trick again you use the built-in tool of the browsers to get around The Washington Times paywall.
In Firefox, it is called Open Link in New Private window, and in Chrome is called Open Link in New Incognito Window.
This is what you do:
MOZILLA FIREFOX BROWSER:
1. To read the blocked article, right click on its title.
2. A box pops up.
3. Click on "Open Link in New Private Window".
4. Now the full unblocked article will appear in Firefox Private Window.
5. The Firefox Private Window has a purple background and also a purple color mask at the top right corner of the title-bar.
6. To read the next blocked article, go back to The Washington Times homepage again.
9. Again right click on the article title.
10. The complete article should appear in the Firefox Private Window.
NOTE: Do not click the article from the Firefox Private Window itself, because it doesn't work.
GOOGLE CHROME BROWSER:
This method is similar to Firefox Private window, as explained above.
This is what you do:
1. To read the blocked article, right click on its title.
2. A box pops up.
3. Click on "Open link in incognito window".
4. Now the full unblocked article will appear in the "Incognito Window".
5. To read the next article, you must go back to the The Washington Times homepage.
6. From here, again you right click on the new article title.
7. Then click on the "Open link in incognito window".
9. In other words, each time you want to read a new article, you must go back to The Washington Times homepage.
So, these are the workable methods how to read The Washington Times free online without installing any browser extension or any software.
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